Issue 2, 2019

Development of an efficient phenolic sensor based on facile Ag2O/Sb2O3 nanoparticles for environmental safety

Abstract

The facile hydrothermal method was used to prepare low-dimensional doped Ag2O/Sb2O3 nanoparticles (NPs) at low temperature in alkaline medium. The calcined NPs were characterized in detail by FTIR, UV/vis, FESEM, XPS, EDS, and XRD. A thin layer of Ag2O/Sb2O3 NPs was deposited onto a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) using Nafion (5% Nafion suspension in ethanol) conducting binder, which formed the working electrode of the selective 3-methoxyphenol electrochemical sensor probe. The proposed chemical sensor exhibits high sensitivity, long-term stability, and enhanced electrochemical responses towards 3-methoxyphenol. Response to 3-methoxyphenol is linear over the concentration range (LDR) of 0.09 nM to 0.09 mM. The analytical parameters of the sensor such as sensitivity, stability, response time, linearity, LDR, robustness, selectivity etc. were evaluated by an electrochemical approach. The sensor probe fabricated with Ag2O/Sb2O3 NPs seems to be a promising candidate for effective and reliable electrochemical detection of hazardous and carcinogenic chemicals in the environment and health care fields in large scales.

Graphical abstract: Development of an efficient phenolic sensor based on facile Ag2O/Sb2O3 nanoparticles for environmental safety

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Jun 2018
Accepted
24 Oct 2018
First published
09 Nov 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2019,1, 696-705

Development of an efficient phenolic sensor based on facile Ag2O/Sb2O3 nanoparticles for environmental safety

Mohammed M. Rahman, M. M. Alam and A. M. Asiri, Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 696 DOI: 10.1039/C8NA00034D

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