Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets modified with nickel disulfide and curcumin nanoparticles for non-enzymatic electrochemical sensing of methyl parathion and 4-nitrophenol

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Microchimica Acta Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A method was designed for simultaneous voltammetric determination of methyl parathion pesticide (MP) and 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). Curcumin nanoparticles were deposited on reduced graphene oxide nanosheets that were modified with nickel disulfide. The material was placed on a screen-printed carbon electrode and then displayed high electrocatalytic activities toward MP and 4-NP, with a peak potential near −0.9 and − 0.7 V (vs. pseudo Ag/AgCl), respectively. Figures of merit include (a) good electrochemical sensitivities (7.165 and 6.252 μA·μM−1·cm−2), (b) wide linear ranges (from 0.25 to 80 μM), (c) low limits of detection (8.7 and 6.9 nM at S/N = 3) for MP and 4-NP, respectively, and (d) good selectivity, repeatability, reproducibility, and storage stability. The method was applied in the determination of MP and 4-NP in tomato and apple juices and spiked river water.

A novel electrocatalysis platform based on reduced graphene oxide-nickel disulfide nanosheets decorated with curcumin nanoparticles for simultaneous quantification of methyl parathion and 4-nitrophenol in various vegetarian juices and water samples.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Khedr T, Hammad AA, Elmarsafy AM, Halawa E, Soliman M (2019) Degradation of some organophosphorus pesticides in aqueous solution by gamma irradiation. J Hazard Mater 373:23–28

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Khairy M, Ayoub HA, Banks CE (2018) Non-enzymatic electrochemical platform for parathion pesticide sensing based on nanometer-sized nickel oxide modified screen-printed electrodes. Food Chem 255:104–111

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Qu Y, Min H, Wei Y, Xiao F, Shi G, Li X, Jin L (2008) Au–TiO2/chit modified sensor for electrochemical detection of trace organophosphates insecticides. Talanta 76:75–762

    Google Scholar 

  4. Meng T, Wang L, Jia H, Gong T, Feng Y, Li R, Wang H, Zhang Y (2019) Facile synthesis of platinum-embedded zirconia/ porous carbons tri-component nanohybrids from metal-organic framework and their application for ultra-sensitively detection of methyl parathion. J Colloid Interface Sci 536:424–430

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Saadati F, Ghahramani F, Shayani-jam H, Piri F, Yaftian MR (2018) Synthesis and characterization of nanostructure molecularly imprinted polyaniline/graphene oxide composite as highly selective electrochemical sensor for detection of p-nitrophenol. J Taiwan Inst Chem E 86:213–221

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Karuppiah C, Palanisamy S, Chen SM, Emmanuel R, Ali MA, Muthukrishnan P, Prakash P, Al-Hemaid FMA (2014) Green biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and nanomolar detection of p-nitrophenol. J Solid State Electrochem 18(7):1847–1854

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Nistor C, Oubi A, Marco MP, Barceló D, Emnéus J (2001) Competitive flow immunoassay with fluorescence detection for determination of 4-nitrophenol. Anal Chim Acta 426:185–195

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Wu J, Fu X, Xie C, Yang M, Fang W, Gao S (2011) TiO2 nanoparticles-enhanced luminol chemiluminescence and its analytical applications in organophosphate pesticide imprinting. Sens. Actuator B-Chem. 160:511–516

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Yan X, Li H, Yan Y, Su X (2015) Selective detection of parathion-methyl based on near-infrared CuInS2 quantumdots. Food Chem 173:179–184

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Kumaravel A, Chandrasekaran M (2010) A novel nanosilver/nafion composite electrode for electrochemical sensing of methyl parathion and parathion. J Electroanal Chem 638:231–235

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Govindasamy M, Chen SM, Mani V, Akilarasan M, Kogularasu S, Subramani B (2017) Nanocomposites composed of layered molybdenum disulfide and graphene for highly sensitive amperometric determination of methyl parathion. Microchim Acta 184(3):725–733

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Balasubramanian P, Balamurugan TST, Chen SM, Chen TW (2019) Simplistic synthesis of ultrafine CoMnO3 nanosheets: as an excellent electrocatalyst for highly sensitive detection of toxic 4-nitrophenol in environmental water samples. J Hazard Mater 361:123–133

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Ghazizadeh AJ, Afkhami A, Bagheri H (2018) Voltammetric determination of 4-nitrophenol using a glassy carbon electrode modified with a gold-ZnO-SiO2 nanostructure. Microchim Acta 185(6):296

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Li Y, Xu M, Li P, Dong J, Ai S (2014) Nonenzymatic sensing of methyl parathion based on graphene/gadolinium Prussian blue analogue nanocomposite modified glassy carbon electrode. Anal Methods 6:2157–2162

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Zhang J, Cui S, Ding Y, Yang X, Guo K, Zhao J-T (2018) Two-dimensional mesoporous ZnCo2O4 nanosheets as a novel electrocatalyst for detection of o-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol. Biosens Bioelectron 112:177–185

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Chen R, Song Y, Wang Z, Gao Y, Sheng Y, Shu Z, Zhang J, Li X (2016) Porous nickel disulfide/reduced graphene oxide nanohybrids with improved electrocatalytic performance for hydrogen evolution. Catal Commun 85:26–29

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. Zhang Y, Xiao X, Sun Y, Shi Y, Dai H, Ni P, Hu J, Li Z, Song Y, Wang L (2013) Electrochemical deposition of nickel nanoparticles on reduced graphene oxide film for nonenzymatic glucose sensing. Electroanal. 25:959–966

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  18. Cikrikci S, Mozioglu E, Yilmaz H (2008) Biological activity of curcuminoids isolated from Curcuma longa. Rec Nat Prod 2:19–24

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Zheng L, Song JF (2009) Curcumin multi-wall carbon nanotubes modified glassy carbon electrode and its electrocatalytic activity towards oxidation of hydrazine. Sens. Actuator B-Chem. 135(2):650–655

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  20. Ragu S, Chen SM, Ranganathan P, Rwei SP (2016) Fabrication of a novel nickel-curcumin/graphene oxide nanocomposites for superior Electrocatalytic activity toward the detection of toxic p-nitrophenol. Int J Electrochem Sci 11(11):9133–9144

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  21. Dinesh B, SaraswathI R (2017) Electrochemical synthesis of nanostructured copper-curcumin complex and its electrocatalytic application towards reduction of 4-nitrophenol. Sens Actuator B-Chem 253:502–512

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  22. Wang T, Hu P, Zhang C, Du H, Zhang Z, Wang X, Chen S, Xiong J, Cui G (2016) Nickel disulfide-graphene nanosheets composites with improved electrochemical performance for sodium ion battery. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 8:7811–7817

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  23. Pandit RS, Gaikwad SC, Agarkar GA, Gade AK, Rai M (2015) Curcumin nanoparticles: physico-chemical fabrication and its in vitro efficacy against human pathogens. 3. Biotech 5(6):991–997

    Google Scholar 

  24. Kim S, Lee SH, Cho M, Lee Y (2016) Solvent-assisted morphology confinement of a nickel sulfide nanostructure and its application for non-enzymatic glucose sensor. Biosens Bioelectron 85:587–595

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  25. Kannan PK, Rout CS (2015) High performance non-enzymatic glucose sensor based on OneStep electrodeposited nickel sulfide Chem. Eur J 21:9355–9359

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  26. Kumar R, Singh R, Hui D, Feo L, Fraternali F (2018) Graphene as biomedical sensing element: state of art review and potential engineering applications. Compos. Part B-Eng 134:193–206

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  27. Hatamie S, Ahadian MM, Zad AI, Akhavan O, Jokar E (2017) Photoluminescence and electrochemical investigation of curcumin-reduced graphene oxide sheets. J Iran Chem Soc 15(2):351–357

    Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Aditya T, Pal A, Pal T (2015) Nitroarene reduction: a trusted model reaction to test nanoparticle catalysts. Chem Comm 51:9410–9431

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  29. Gao F, Wang Q, Gao N, Yang Y, Cai F, Yamane M, Gao F, Tanaka H (2017) Hydroxyapatite/chemically reduced graphene oxide composite: environment-friendlysynthesis and high-performance electrochemical sensing for hydrazine. Biosens Bioelectron 97:238–245

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  30. Bard AJ, Faulkner LR (2001) Electrochemical methods: fundamentals and applications, 2nd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 26–28

    Google Scholar 

  31. Zhang J, Cui S, Ding Y, Yang X, Guo K, Zhao JT (2018) Two-dimensional mesoporous ZnCo2O4 nanosheets as a novel electrocatalyst for detection of o-nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol. Biosens Bioelectron 112:177–185

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  32. Song B, Cao W, Wang Y (2016) A methyl parathion electrochemical sensor based on nano-TiO2, graphene composite film modified electrode. Fuller Nanotub Carbon N 24(7):435–440

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  33. Dong J, Wang X, Qiao F, Liu P, Ai S (2013) Highly sensitive electrochemical stripping analysis of methyl parathion at MWCNTs–CeO2–au nanocomposite modified electrode. Sens. Actuator B-Chem. 186:774–780

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  34. Govindasamy M, Mani V, Chen SM, Chen TW, Sundramoorthy AK (2017) Methyl parathion detection in vegetables and fruits using silver@graphene nanoribbons nanocomposite modified screen printed electrode. Sci Rep 7:46471

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to thank the Tunisian Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research for financial support of this work.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Valorization Laboratory of Useful Materials (LVMU), National Center of Material Science Research (CNRSM), University of Carthage, Techno-park Borj Cedria, BP 273, 8020, Soliman, Tunisia

    Alma Mejri & Ahmed Hichem Hamzaoui

  2. Laboratory of Natural Water Treatment (LABTEN), Water Researches and Technologies Center, University of Carthage, Techno-park Borj Cedria, BP 273, 8020, Soliman, Tunisia

    Abdelmoneim Mars & Hamza Elfil

Authors
  1. Alma Mejri
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Abdelmoneim Mars
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Hamza Elfil
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Ahmed Hichem Hamzaoui
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Abdelmoneim Mars.

Ethics declarations

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Additional information

Publisher’s note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Electronic supplementary material

ESM 1

(DOCX 5940 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Mejri, A., Mars, A., Elfil, H. et al. Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets modified with nickel disulfide and curcumin nanoparticles for non-enzymatic electrochemical sensing of methyl parathion and 4-nitrophenol. Microchim Acta 186, 704 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-019-3853-3

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-019-3853-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation