Murugan, Ravikumar and Hwa, Kuo-Yuan and Santhan, Aravindan and Ibrahim, Suriani (2024) ZnO/B-g-C3N4 nanoplatelet/nanosheet heterostructures for the electrochemical detection of metol in real sample analysis. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7 (2). 2072 – 2085. ISSN 2574-0970, DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c05333.
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One of the most important organic molecules is metol 4-(methylamino)phenol sulfate, which finds extensive usage in various applications as a monochromatic material. People, plants, and animals are all affected by it, and it raises serious environmental concerns. Developing a straightforward, quick, affordable, sensitive, and hands-on technique for metol determination in water bodies is of the utmost importance in the current scenario. A low-cost fabrication strategy is presented in this work for the synthesis of a zinc oxide nanoplatelet (ZnO) embedded into boron-doped carbon nitride nanosheet materials (ZnO/2D-BCN) utilizing a high-performance electrochemical sensor. The quantitative and qualitative information about the nanostructure of ZnO/2D-BCN were systematically analyzed further by using standard spectroscopic techniques such as XPS, XRD, FT-IR, EDAX, and Raman spectroscopy. 2D-nonstructural was observed to have a nanoplatelet/nanosheet through FE-SEM and TEM. Furthermore, electrochemical sensors’ performance was analyzed by using cyclic and differential pulsed voltammetry techniques. The fabricated ZnO/2D-BCN has peculiar intrinsic structural features, both connectivity and characteristic synergistic effect of B-dopants 2D-structure, which perturb mass transport with highly efficient electrochemical pathways. In addition, the electrochemical sensors of metol and its electrocatalytic mechanism were scrutinized further, which confirmed a fast electron transfer event. The as-prepared ZnO/2D-BCN exposed superior sensing conclusion through LOD (8.6 nM) in a wide-ranging linear 0.039-1617 (μM) as well as a remarkable sensitivity of 0.804 μA μM-1 cm-2. Additionally, other sensing parameters such as remarkable repeatability, electrodes’ reproducibility, materials’ stability, and a remarkable selectivity toward metol have been performed. Furthermore, the practical feasibility of as-made ZnO/2D-BCN/GCE has been inspected with biological and environment samples such as blood serum, human urine, river, pond, industry, and tap samples as a real sample, revealing excellent rational recovery outcomes. © 2024 American Chemical Society.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [Grant no. MOST-111-2221-E-027-098-MY2], National Taipei University of Technology |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 2D-B-GCN; Electrochemical sensors; Metol detection; Real samples; ZnO nanoplatelet |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering > Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2024 04:56 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2024 04:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/44927 |
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