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Electrochemical Determination of Bisphenol A at Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes/Poly (Crystal Violet) Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode

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Bisphenol A (BPA) can disrupt endocrine system. In this study, a novel and sensitive electrochemical senor based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and poly crystal violet (PCV) modified glass carbon electrode (GCE) was developed for determination of BPA. The morphologies and properties of modified electrode were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and electrochemical impedance spectra. Compared with bare GCE and other modified electrodes, this MWCNTs/PCV/GCE exhibited an excellent electrocatalytic role for the oxidation of BPA by significantly enhancing the current response and decreasing the BPA oxidation overpotential. Under optimum conditions, the electrochemical sensor can be applied to the quantification of BPA by linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) with a linear range covering 5 × 10−8–1 × 10−4 mol L−1 (with a correlation coefficient of 0.9969), and the limit detection was 1 × 10−8 mol L−1 (S/N = 3). The recovery was between 98.38 and 103.51% in real plastic samples. This strategy might enable more opportunities for the electrochemical determination of BPA in practical applications.

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    Wei Wang, Jing Tang, Shengbiao Zheng, Xiaoqing Ma & Jinkun Zhu

  2. Department of Chemistry, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230601, China

    Jing Tang

  3. College of Resource and Environment, Anhui Science and Technology University, Fengyang, Anhui Province, 233100, China

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This work was supported by the National Nature Foundation of China (21375001, 21607002), the Project of Education Department of Anhui Province (KJ2017A506), the key discipline of Anhui Science and Technology University (AKZDXK2015A01), the Foundation of Anhui Science and Technology University (ZRC2016485) and the Student’s Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Trainning Program of China (S10879CX22, 201510879002).

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Wang, W., Tang, J., Zheng, S. et al. Electrochemical Determination of Bisphenol A at Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes/Poly (Crystal Violet) Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode. Food Anal. Methods 10, 3815–3824 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-017-0944-9

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