Novel magnetic nickel telluride nanowires decorated with thorns: synthesis and their intrinsic peroxidase-like activity for detection of glucose.

The magnetic nickel telluride with thorny nanostructure is directly synthesized for the first time via a hydrothermal method. It was used to detect H2O2 and glucose with a limit of detection of 25 nM (linear range = 0.1-0.5 μM) and 0.42 μM (linear range = 1-50 μM), respectively.