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An enzymeless organophosphate pesticide sensor using Au nanoparticle-decorated graphene hybrid nanosheet as
Jingming Gong1, Xingju Miao, Ting Zhou
1Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, PR China. jmgong@mail.ccnu.edu.cn
Abstract:
A sensitive enzymeless organophosphate pesticides (OPs) sensor is fabricated by using Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) decorated graphene nanosheets (GNs) modified glassy carbon electrode as solid phase extraction (SPE). Such a nanostructured composite film, combining the advantages of AuNPs with two dimensional GNs, dramatically facilitates the enrichment of nitroaromatic OPs onto the surface and realizes their stripping voltammetric detection of OPs by using methyl parathion (MP) as a model. The stripping voltammetric performances of captured MP were evaluated by cyclic voltammetric and square-wave voltammetric analysis. The combination of the nanoassembly of AuNPs-GNs, SPE, and stripping voltammetry provides a fast, simple, and sensitive electrochemical method for detecting nitroaromatic OPs. The stripping analysis is highly linear over the MP concentration ranges of 0.001-0.1 and 0.2-1.0 μg mL(-1) with a detection limit of 0.6 ng mL(-1). This designed enzymeless sensor exhibits good reproducibility and acceptable stability.
