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Green biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and nanomolar detection of p-nitrophenol

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Green biosynthesis of nanoparticles and their applications in sensor field is of great interest to the researchers. We report herein a simple green approach for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) using Acacia nilotica Willd twig bark and its application for the detection of 4-nitro phenol (4-NP). The synthesized Ag-NPs were characterized by Transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and elemental analysis. The size of synthesized Ag-NPs was in the range of 10–50 nm. The Ag-NPs modified electrode shows a high sensitivity and selectivity towards the sensing of 4-NP. The fabricated modified electrode shows a low detection limit of 15 nM on the wider linear response range from 100 nM to 350 μM with the sensitivity of 2.58 ± 0.05 μAμM−1 cm−2. In addition, the fabricated sensor shows good repeatability and reproducibility.

The schematic representation of the fabrication of Ag-NPs and application of 4-nitrophenol sensing

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The support of Visiting Professorship to SMC at King Saud University is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, ROC

    Chelladurai Karuppiah, Selvakumar Palanisamy, Shen-Ming Chen & P. Prakash

  2. Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Thiagarajar College, Madurai, 625009, Tamilnadu, India

    R. Emmanuel, P. Muthukrishnan & P. Prakash

  3. Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Shen-Ming Chen, M. Ajmal Ali & Fahad M. A. Al-Hemaid

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Karuppiah, C., Palanisamy, S., Chen, SM. et al. Green biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and nanomolar detection of p-nitrophenol. J Solid State Electrochem 18, 1847–1854 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-014-2425-z

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