Metal-free cysteamine-functionalized graphene alleviates mutual interferences in heavy metal electrochemical detection

Heavy metal pollutants are of great concern to environmental monitoring due to their potent toxicity. Electrochemical detection, one of the main techniques, is hindered by the mutual interferences of various heavy metal ions in practical use. In particular, the sensitivity of carbon electrodes to Cd...

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Vydané v:	Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC Ročník 25; číslo 4; s. 1647
Hlavní autori:	Yang, Qiuyue, Nguyen, Emily P, Panáček, David, Šedajová, Veronika, Hrubý, Vítězslav, Rosati, Giulio, Silva, Cecilia de Carvalho Castro, Bakandritsos, Aristides, Otyepka, Michal, Merkoçi, Arben
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	England 20.02.2023
ISSN:	1463-9262
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Shrnutí:	Heavy metal pollutants are of great concern to environmental monitoring due to their potent toxicity. Electrochemical detection, one of the main techniques, is hindered by the mutual interferences of various heavy metal ions in practical use. In particular, the sensitivity of carbon electrodes to Cd ions (one of the most toxic heavy metals) is often overshadowed by some heavy metals ( Pb and Cu ). To mitigate interference, metallic particles/films ( Hg, Au, Bi, and Sn) typically need to be embedded in the carbon electrodes. However, these additional metallic materials may face issues of secondary pollution and unsustainability. In this study, a metal-free and sustainable nanomaterial, namely cysteamine covalently functionalized graphene (GSH), was found to lead to a 6-fold boost in the Cd sensitivity of the screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE), while the sensitivities to Pb and Cu were not influenced in simultaneous detection. The selective enhancement could be attributed to the grafted thiols on GSH sheets with good affinity to Cd ions based on Pearson's hard and soft acid and base principle. More intriguingly, the GSH-modified SPCE (GSH-SPCE) featured high reusability with extended cycling times (23 times), surpassing the state-of-art SPCEs modified by non-covalently functionalized graphene derivatives. Last, the GSH-SPCE was validated in tap water.
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ISSN:	1463-9262
DOI:	10.1039/d2gc02978b