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Mapping the antioxidant activity of apple peels with soft probe scanning electrochemical microscopy

Lin, Tzu-En  
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Lesch, Andreas  
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Li, Chi-Lin
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2017
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

We present a non-invasive electrochemical strategy for mapping the antioxidant (AO) activity of apple peels, which counterbalances oxidative stress caused by various external effectors. Soft carbon microelectrodes were used for soft probe scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) enabling the gentle and scratch-free in contact mode scanning of the rough and delicate apple peels in an electrolyte solution. The SECM feedback mode was applied using ferrocene methanol (FcMeOH) as redox mediator that gets electrochemically oxidized at the soft probe and diffuses towards the apple peel where it gets regenerated by certain AOs leading to a redox mediator recycling and increased current signal. The global AO activity in the apple peel including lenticels and regions with artificially degraded AOs were mapped using the soft microelectrodes. Finally, in an apple cross-section the higher and homogeneous AO concentration in the peel with a heterogeneously decaying AO gradient towards the apple inward was visualized, demonstrating the adequate micrometer resolution of the SECM probe and the possibility to get information of the interior AO activity of the apple.

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DOI
10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.01.015
Web of Science ID

WOS:000394063600017

Author(s)
Lin, Tzu-En  
Lesch, Andreas  
Li, Chi-Lin
Girault, Hubert  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Elsevier Science Sa

Published in
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
Volume

786

Start page

120

End page

128

Subjects

Scanning electrochemical microscopy

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Soft probes

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Microelectrodes

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Antioxidants

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Apple peel

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January 7, 2017
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