Electrochemical Oxidation of Tannic Acid at ZIF-8 Induced Nitrogen Doped Porous Carbon Nanoframework Modified Electrode

The present paper reports synthesis and development of nitrogen doped porous carbon nanoframeworks (N-CNFs) based electrochemical sensor for sensitive detection of tannic acid (TA) which is one of the potentially harmful organic pollutants. N-CNFs were prepared using zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF-8) as precursor and silica protected calcination strategy. The as prepared N-CNFs were characterized by different microscopic (scanning electron microscopy; SEM, transmission electron microscopy; TEM), spectroscopic (raman, X-ray diffraction; XRD, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; XPS, fourier transform infrared; FTIR), adsorption (Brunauer–Emmett–Teller; BET) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopic (EIS) methods. N-CNFs showed large surface area, nitrogen rich content, high conductivity and interconnecting porous channels which helped in achieving high electrochemical performances toward sensing applications. The present work discusses a simple methodology for detection of TA at N-CNFs modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) using voltammetric techniques. The fabricated N-CNFs electrode showed high sensitivity, selectivity and reproducibility for TA detection with detection limit (LOD) and quantification limit as low as 0.86 μg mL−1 and 2.85 μg mL−1 respectively. The electrode exhibited a satisfied recovery between 90.31%–106.2% for detection of TA in polluted water.