CVD graphene vs. highly ordered pyrolytic graphite for use in electroanalytical sensing

Analyst. 2012 Feb 21;137(4):833-9. doi: 10.1039/c2an16049h. Epub 2011 Dec 20.

Abstract

We explore and contrast the electroanalytical performance of a commercially available CVD grown graphene electrode with that of edge- and basal-plane pyrolytic graphite electrodes constructed from highly ordered pyrolytic graphite for the sensing of biologically important analytes, namely β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and uric acid (UA). We demonstrate that for the analytes studied here, in the best case, the electroanalytical performance of the CVD-graphene mimics that of edge plane pyrolytic graphite, suggesting no significant advantage of utilising CVD-graphene in this context.