Carbon cloth-supported nanorod-like conductive Ni/Co bimetal MOF: A stable and high-performance enzyme-free electrochemical sensor for determination of glucose in serum and beverage

In this work, we propose a electrochemical enzyme-free glucose sensor by direct growth of conductive Ni/Co bimetal MOF on carbon cloth [Ni/Co(HHTP)MOF/CC] via a facile hydrothermal method. Due to excellent conductivity between Ni/Co(HHTP)MOF and CC, synergic catalytic effect of Ni and Co elements, the Ni/Co(HHTP)MOF/CC not only provides larger surface area and more effective active sites, but also boosts the charge transports and electro-catalytic performance. Under optimized conditions, the Ni/Co(HHTP)MOF/CC shows excellent activity with a linear range of 0.3 μM–2.312 mM, a low detection limit of 100 nM (S/N = 3), a fast response time of 2 s and a high sensitivity of 3250 μA mM−1 cm−2. Furthermore, the Ni/Co(HHTP)MOF/CC was successfully applied for the detection of glucose in real serum and beverages with competitive performances. This facile and cost-effective method provides a novel strategy for monitoring of glucose in biological and food samples.