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Nanocomposite based functionalized Polyethersulfone and conjugated ternary ZnYCdO nanomaterials for the fabrication of selective Cd2+ sensor probe

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Carboxylated polyethersulfone (PES-COOH) was doped with various concentrations of ZnYCdO hybrid metal oxides on the surface of the polymer matrix to produce PES-COOH-ZnYCdO nanocomposites as a thin film. PES-COOH was fabricated by two-steps process: acetylating reaction followed by oxidation reaction, and its structure was investigated using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) and Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Then, the fabricated PES-COOH-ZnYCdO nanocomposites (NCs) were characterized using common characterization techniques which include: scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), FT-IR, thermal analysis, SEM with energy dispersive X-Ray (EDX) spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). FT-IR and XRD analysis confirmed the interactions between carboxylate ions present on the polymer surface metric and the metals that were present as ZnYCdO nanoparticles. Based on values calculated from FT-IR spectra of the PES-COOH-ZnYCdO NCs, the metals and carboxylate ions formed bindentate complexes. Also, the signal peaks of the XRD for ZnYCdO were shifted to a lower degree which also confirmed the interactions between the nanoparticles and PES-COOH. A selective Cd2+ metal ion sensor was fabricated by coating of a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) with the slurry of PES-COOH-ZnYCdO NCs polymers. The NCs assembled film onto GCE was implemented to successive detection of Cd2+ metal ion in phosphate buffer medium. To evaluate the sensor analytical performances, a calibration curve has been plotted from current versus concentration of electrolyte (Cd2+ ion). It is found linear (r2 = 0.9939) over linear dynamic range (LDR) of 0.1 nM~0.1 mM concentration of Cd2+ ion by electrochemical approach. The sensitivity and detection limit (DL) are 5.4589 μAμM−1 cm−2 and 17.39 ± 0.87 pM respectively were calculated from the slope of calibration plot. Therefore, the resultant Cd2+ sensor shows good sensitivity, reproducibility with high accuracy, wider dynamic range, short response time, very lower detection limit and long-term stability with similar performances.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Mahmoud A. Hussein, Noof A. Alenazi, Khalid A. Alamry, Abdullah M. Asiri & Mohammed M. Rahman

  2. Polymer Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

    Mahmoud A. Hussein

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, 3100, Bangladesh

    M. M. Alam

  4. Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research(CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Abdullah M. Asiri & Mohammed M. Rahman

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Hussein, M.A., Alam, M.M., Alenazi, N.A. et al. Nanocomposite based functionalized Polyethersulfone and conjugated ternary ZnYCdO nanomaterials for the fabrication of selective Cd2+ sensor probe. J Polym Res 25, 262 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-018-1643-y

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