A Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) substrate based on Ag/b-AgVO 3 nanobelts deposited on copper foil (Cu@Ag/b-AgVO 3 ) was used for the detection of carbamate pesticides: carbofuran, carbaryl, isoprocarb and propoxur. Cu@Ag/b-AgVO 3 has shown an excellent SERS activity for carbamate pesticides compared to silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Under optimized conditions, detection limits of 2.5 pM, 10 pM, 50 pM and 75 pM were obtained for carbaryl, carbofuran, isoprocarb and propoxur respectively, suggesting that Cu@Ag/b-AgVO 3 is a good candidate for use as a SERS substrate for the trace level detection of these pesticides.
Exploring a robust, extremely sensitive, cost-effective and reliable assay platform for the precise analysis of dopamine (DA) has become a big challenge predominantly at the clinical level.
This
work reports the fabrication of an electrochemical glucose
biosensor based on functionalized graphene, assembled onto a gold-sputtered
screen-printed electrode. With the aim of simplicity, versatility,
and low cost, biosensors dually functionalized with graphene oxide
containing excess carboxylic acids and thiol functionality were synthesized
and characterized by Fourier transform infrared, Raman, and UV–vis
spectroscopy. The increased carboxylic groups of the graphene backbone
provided more active sites for the remote functional groups of glucose
oxidase during 1-ethyl-3-(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)carbodiimide-assisted
immobilization. The modified electrode interface was characterized
by scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and cyclic
voltammetry. This hybrid electrode interface showed higher sensitivity
for glucose (3.1732 μA mM–1 cm–2) with a detection limit of 0.3194 mM (S/N = 3). Furthermore, the
fabricated biosensor demonstrated a linear response in 3–9
mM glucose concentration with the correlation coefficient of 0.94693,
a performance well beyond that of the similarly fabricated electrode
interfaces in terms of selectivity and efficiency. The enhanced electrochemical
performance is assumed to originate simultaneously from sputtered
morphology of Au and the bifunctionality of the graphene backbone.
This work highlights the significant potential for Au-sputtered electrode
interfaces coupled with a bifunctional graphene backbone toward several
biomedical applications.
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