A novel polycaprolactone/polypyrrole/β-cyclodextrin electrochemical flexible sensor for dinotefuran pesticide detection

Xinliang Mei; Xingyu Wang; Wenshuai Huang; Jiaxing Zhu; Kecheng Liu; Xingsheng Wang; Wei Cai; Ruiyin He

doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.137194

A novel polycaprolactone/polypyrrole/β-cyclodextrin electrochemical flexible sensor for dinotefuran pesticide detection

Food Chem. 2024 Feb 15:434:137194. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.137194. Epub 2023 Aug 18.

Authors

Xinliang Mei¹, Xingyu Wang², Wenshuai Huang², Jiaxing Zhu³, Kecheng Liu², Xingsheng Wang², Wei Cai⁴, Ruiyin He⁵

Affiliations

¹ College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China; Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control (AEMPC), UNIST-NUIST Research Center of Environment and Energy, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China; Joyson Safety Systems (Huzhou) Co., Ltd., Huzhou, Zhejiang 313103, PR China.
² College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China.
³ Heilongjiang North Tools Co., Ltd., Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang 157013, PR China.
⁴ Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control (AEMPC), UNIST-NUIST Research Center of Environment and Energy, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China. Electronic address: caiwei_19880105@163.com.
⁵ College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China. Electronic address: ryhe@njau.edu.cn.

PMID: 37738813
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.137194

Abstract

The monitoring and the rapid quantification of pesticides and their residues are becoming increasingly important in the field of food safety. Herein, the polycaprolactone/polypyrrole/β-cyclodextrin (PCL/PPy/β-CD) flexible sensor was developed for the electrochemical determination of new neonicotinoid insecticide Dinotefuran (DNF). The morphology, structure, and hydrophilicity of PCL/PPy/β-CD sensor probes were characterized by SEM, FTIR spectroscopy and static contact angle test. Under optimum conditions, the fabricated PCL/PPy/β-CD sensor exhibited excellent electrochemical sensing performance for DNF with a low detection limit of 0.05 μM in the linear concentration range from 0.2 μM to 50 μM and high sensitivity 14.07 μA·μM^-1·cm^-2, which attributed to the two-stage porous structure, good electron transfer rate and the adsorption effect. The PCL/PPy/β-CD sensor also showed reproducibility (RSD = 4.76%), stability, and high selectivity towards DNF. In addition, a real samples investigation in rice with recoveries of 96.67 % ∼ 103.65 % implied the good application potential of PCL/PPy/β-CD in DNF monitoring.

Keywords: Dinotefuran; Electrochemical flexible sensor; Neonicotinoid insecticide; Polycaprolactone; Polypyrrole; β-Cyclodextrin.