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Chenglong Chen1, Xuchu Lv1, Wu Lei1
1School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China.
Abstract:
An electrochemical sensor based on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified by three-dimensional graphene (3D-GE) and polyglutamic acid (PGA) was developed to quantitatively detect Amoxicillin (AMX), a worldwide used antibiotic. AMX response at PGA/3D-GE/GCE involving the transfer of one electron and an equal number of protons were determined using electrochemical approaches. Density functional theory simulations were performed to give insights on the reaction mechanism of AMX on the surface of the modified electrode. When the optimization of the experimental conditions was completed, the linear range of AMX was 2-60 μM. Besides, the detection limit was calculated as 0.118 μM (S/N = 3). And the modified electrode could detect the concentration of the AMX in human urine samples. Overall, the developed PGA/3D-GE/GCE for determination of AMX shows great potentials in practice.
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