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Exploring electrocatalytic proficiencies of CuO nanostructure for simultaneous determination of bentazone and mexacarbate pesticides

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Pesticides are the most perilous organic compounds that are of major human health concern. The hazardous pesticides such as bentazone (BTZN) and mexacarbate (MCBT) which badly cause the environmental pollution and pose lethal impacts on human health. In an effort to develop a highly efficient, reliable and sensitive electrochemical sensor, the novel CuO nanostructures were synthesized through easy and green aqueous chemical growth procedure and used as sensitive probe for the simultaneous determination of bentazone and mexacarbate pesticides. The prepared material was used as conductive and catalytic tool for the modification of glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The exquisite CuO nanostructures were characterized by FTIR, FE-SEM, XRD, EDS, zeta sizer and zeta potential to reveal the functionalities, morphological texture, crystallinity, size and existing charge on the surface of nanostructures. The conductive nature and charge transfer kinetics of CuO/GCE was explored through cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Under the optimized parameters, the sensitive and reliable simultaneous determination of two pesticides was carried out via CV and DPV that exhibited fluent determination process. The Ipa response was linearly proportional to the concentration of pesticides with low LOD and LOQ observed as (0.008 and 0.026 µM) for bentazone and (0.0015 and 0.004 µM) for mexacarbate, which is lower than the permissible limit set by US Health Advisory Level. Moreover, the developed sensor manifested tunable reusability, stability, and selectivity for both analytes. The proposed method is a reliable step towards the on-site detection of pesticides in various resources.

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The authors are highly thankful to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for providing funds under the project “6714/Sindh/NRPU/R&D/HEC/HEC/2015”.

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  1. National Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76080, Pakistan

    Jamil A. Buledi, Amber R. Solangi & Sidra Ameen

  2. Department of Chemistry, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, 66111, Pakistan

    Pervez A. Buledi

  3. Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan

    Madeeha Batool

  4. M.A Kazi Institute of Chemistry, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, 76080, Pakistan

    Arfana Mallah

  5. Department of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sindh, 67450, Pakistan

    Sidra Ameen

  6. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ismail M. Palabiyik

  7. School of Resources and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Xiyuan Ave, P.O. Box 611731, Chengdu, PR China

    Hassan Karimi Maleh

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Buledi, J.A., Buledi, P.A., Batool, M. et al. Exploring electrocatalytic proficiencies of CuO nanostructure for simultaneous determination of bentazone and mexacarbate pesticides. Appl Nanosci 11, 1889–1902 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-021-01864-x

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