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Dual colorimetric platforms for direct detection of glyphosate based on Os-Rh nanozyme with peroxidase-like activity
Yingying Zhong1, Junsong Yang2, Wanying Wu1
1School of Food & Pharmaceutical Engineering, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, 526061, PR China; Laboratory of Quality & Safety Risk Assessment for Agro-products (Zhaoqing), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Zhaoqing, 526061, PR China; Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center of Food & Agricultural Product Safety Analysis and Testing, Zhaoqing, 526061, PR China.
Background:
To minimize the impact of pesticide residues in food on human health, it is necessary to enhance their detection. Recently, many nanozyme-based colorimetric methods for pesticides detection have been developed, however, they often required the assistance of natural enzymes, which made the process and result of methods susceptible to the stability and activity of natural enzymes. To overcome these drawbacks, methods for direct detection of pesticides using nanozymes have been developed, and there are few studies in this field currently. Thus, it is of great research and practical significance to develop more nanozymes-based colorimetric methods for direct detection of pesticides.
Results:
Dual colorimetric platforms based on Os-Rh nanozyme with excellent peroxidase-like activity were constructed for directly detection of glyphosate in this work. Results showed that glyphosate was able to sensitively and selectively inhibit the peroxidase-like activity of Os-Rh nanozyme through hindering the decomposition of H2O2 by Os-Rh nanozyme to produce HO∙. Based on this, the dual colorimetric platforms achieved highly sensitive detection for glyphosate over a wide linear concentration range (50-1000 μg L-1 in solution platform and 200-1000 μg L-1 in paper platform), with the detection limits of 28.37 μg L-1 in solution platform and 400 μg L-1 (naked-eye detection limit)/123.25 μg L-1 (gray scale detection limit) in paper platform, respectively. Moreover, the dual colorimetric platforms possessed satisfactory reliability and accuracy for practical applications, and has been successfully applied to the detection of real samples with the spiked recoveries of 92.78-102.75 % and RSD of 1.17-3.88 %.
Significance:
The dual colorimetric platforms for glyphosate direct detection based on Os-Rh nanozyme developed in this work not only owned considerable practical application potential, but also could provide more inspirations and ideas for the rational design and development of colorimetric sensing methods for the rapid detection of pesticides based on nanozymes.
