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Electrical measurements performed in deionized water show that the Au\/Nafion\/Au-MWCNTs\u2013Nafion:Cu cells can be successfully used in order to detect the presence of p-aminophenol (PAP) in water, without the need for any supporting electrolyte. The intensity of the redox peaks arising when PAP is added to deionized water is found to be linearly related to the analyte in the range from 0.2 to 1.6 \u00b5M, with a detection limit of 90 nM and a sensitivity of 7 \u00b5A\u00b7(\u00b5M\u22121)\u00b7cm\u22122.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140508926","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,21]],"date-time":"2014-05-21T10:38:31Z","timestamp":1400668711000},"page":"8926-8939","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":40,"title":["Electrochemical Detection of p-Aminophenol by Flexible Devices Based on Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Electrochemically Modified Nafion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3295-0206","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Graziella","family":"Scandurra","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Chemistry and Industrial Engineering, Messina University, Messina 98166, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Arena","family":"Antonella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Chemistry and Industrial Engineering, Messina University, Messina 98166, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carmine","family":"Ciofi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Chemistry and Industrial Engineering, Messina University, Messina 98166, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gaetano","family":"Saitta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronic Engineering, Chemistry and Industrial Engineering, Messina University, Messina 98166, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maurizio","family":"Lanza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNR, Institute for Chemical-Physics Processes, Messina Section, Messina 98166, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Crini, G., and Badot, P.M. 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