3D Graphene-Carbon Nanotubes-Polydimethyl Siloxane Flexible Electrodes for Simultaneous Electrochemical Detections of Hg, Pb and Cd

In this work, the effect of CNTs content in 3D graphene-PDMS-CNTs electrodes were systematically studied for simultaneous determination of Hg, Pb and Cd by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry. The composites were formed by dip coating CVD graphene on Ni foam in CNTs-dispersed PDMS solution with varying CNTs concentrations. The optimal CNTs content was found to be ~0.5 mg/mL for all analytes. The optimal graphene-PDMS-CNTs electrode showed good analytical performances with sharp well-separated peaks of Pb, Hg and Cd in the concentration range of 100–500 μg/L. Therefore, the graphene-PDMS-CNTs electrode is highly promising for multiple detections of heavy metal pollutants