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Hydrothermal synthesis of iron titanate hexagonal nanoplates for electrochemical detection of nitrofurazone

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An electrochemical sensor is established using an iron titanate (FeTiO3) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) to detect nitrofurazone. Various microscopic and spectroscopic analysis was performed to reveal the properties of the prepared FeTiO3 hexagonal nanoplates. The FeTiO3/GCE presents enhanced electrochemical response to nitrofurazone at the peak reduction potential of − 0.471 V with a larger peak current than the bare GCE due to high electrical conductivity, enhanced specific surface area, and abundant active sites. The superior nitrofurazone detection performance includes the low limit of detection of 0.002 μM and the sensitivity of 0.551 µA µM−1 cm−2 in the linear concentration range of 0.01–162.2 μM. The reproducibility and selectivity studies of the FeTiO3/GCE show excellent results with a relative standard deviation of < 5%. The practicability of FeTiO3/GCE is confirmed by monitoring nitrofurazone in actual samples. This work demonstrates that perovskite-type FeTiO3 has great potential in real-world sample analysis, and provides a new way to develop high-performance electrochemical sensors.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under the grant of MOST 111-2221-E-027-020-MY3. The authors also acknowledge the financial support from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) through the Core Research Grant of EMR/2017/000116, the Ministry of Education through the FAST grant of F. No. 5-6/2013-TS.VII, and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) through the FIST grant of SR/FST/ETI-416/2016.

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  1. Center of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

    Vijitha S. Nair, Ramakrishnan Vishnuraj, Harsha Dinesh & Murali Rangarajan

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

    Vijitha S. Nair, Ramakrishnan Vishnuraj, Harsha Dinesh & Murali Rangarajan

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Nair, V.S., Kokulnathan, T., Wang, TJ. et al. Hydrothermal synthesis of iron titanate hexagonal nanoplates for electrochemical detection of nitrofurazone. Microchim Acta 191, 245 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-024-06300-9

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