Development, characterization and utilization of a enzymatic nanobiosensor for a carbaryl determination / Desenvolvimento, caracterização e utilização de um nanobiossensor enzimático para a determinação da carbaril

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes, a great interest in exploring their applications has raised, being one of those the modification of electrodes. Many works has shown the advantages of applying glassy carbon electrodes modified with carbon nanotubes and enzymes. These systems present elevated amperometric response with decreased potentials of oxidation or reduction of either the substract or the enzymatic product, eliminating the response of interferences as well. Moreover, these systems present good detection limits, as well as sensibility and stability improvements in consequence of a favorable microenvironment for the enzyme action. All these advantages make interesting the employment of such biosensors in pesticides monitoring. Due to the scarcity of works describing this kind of application, the aim of this work is its exploration, focusing on sensibility increasing caused by the use of carbon nanotubes, as well as selectivity increasing caused by the use of enzymes. In this work a nanobiosensor was developed to carbaryl determination in tomato samples. For this, the employed carbon nanotubes were chemically treated before their characterization by transmission electron microscopy. The glassy carbon electrode modified with carbon nanotubes was characterized both electrochemically and by scan electron microscopy. The employed acetylcholinesterase enzyme had its enzymatic activity measured by spectrophotometric means. The nanobiosensor had its operational parameters optimized and it was employed in the determination of carbaryl in tomato samples. The reproducibility of the nanobiosensor preparation was 4.02%. The relative standard deviation for the repeatability and reproducibility were, respectively, 1.18 and 3.27%. Two tomato samples were spiked with 0.500 µmol L-1 and 6.00 µmol L-1 of carbaryl, and their respective recoveries were 96.00 and 95.08%. The detection and quantitation limits obtained with the developed nanobiosensor were, respectively, 8.96 and 29.9 nmol L-1.

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acetylcholinesterase eletrodos modificados biosensors pesticidas pesticides biossensores acetilcolinesterase nanotubos de carbono modified electrodes carbon nanotubes

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