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Electrochemical Determination of Carbendazim in Food Samples Using an Electrochemically Reduced Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Oxide-Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode

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Nitrogen-doped graphene oxide (NGO) was synthesized via pyrolysis of graphene oxide and urea and was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). An electrochemically reduced nitrogen-doped graphene oxide-modified glassy carbon electrode (ERNGO/GCE) was developed for the determination of carbendazim (CBZ) in food samples. The surface morphology of the modified electrode was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were employed to demonstrate the large electrode surface and fast electron transfer of the ERNGO/GCE. Electrochemical behaviors of CBZ at different electrodes were studied by voltammetry. Experimental results showed that the ERNGO/GCE achieved better performance for the electrochemical oxidation of CBZ than either the bare glassy carbon electrode (GCE) or the nitrogen-doped graphene oxide-modified GCE (NGO/GCE). Under optimized conditions, the ERNGO/GCE exhibited a wide linearity of 5.0~850 μg/L with a detection limit of 1.0 μg/L (signal-to-noise ratio = 3). Application of our proposed method in food products was shown to be practical and reliable.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi for Youth (No. 2015GXNSFBA139037), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2015YT94), and the Achievement Transformation Project of Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2016020).

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  1. Institute for Agricultural Product Quality Safety and Testing Technology, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, 530007, China

    Yu Ya, Cuiwen Jiang, Leixing Mo, Tao Li, Liping Xie, Jie He, Li Tang, Dejiao Ning & Feiyan Yan

  2. Quality Inspection and Test Center for Sugarcane and Its Product, China Ministry of Agriculture (Nanning), Nanning, 530007, China

    Yu Ya, Cuiwen Jiang, Leixing Mo, Tao Li, Liping Xie, Jie He, Li Tang, Dejiao Ning & Feiyan Yan

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Ya, Y., Jiang, C., Mo, L. et al. Electrochemical Determination of Carbendazim in Food Samples Using an Electrochemically Reduced Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Oxide-Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode. Food Anal. Methods 10, 1479–1487 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-016-0708-y

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