Use of Carbon Nanotubes for the Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables

J AOAC Int. 2016 Nov 1;99(6):1415-1425. doi: 10.5740/jaoacint.16-0275.

Abstract

This review presents the application of carbon nanotubes as sorbent materials in the analysis of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables. The advantages, limitations, and challenges of carbon nanotubes, with respect to their use in analytical chemistry, are presented. The efficiency of their application as extraction sorbent materials (in terms of LOD, LOQ, linearity, relative recovery, and RSD) in SPE, solid-phase microextraction, multi-plug filtration clean-up, matrix solid-phase dispersion, and the quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe method is reported. The synthesis, functionalization, purification, and characterization methods of carbon nanotubes are also discussed.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Food Contamination / analysis*
  • Fruit / chemistry*
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
  • Pesticide Residues / analysis*
  • Vegetables / chemistry*

Substances

  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Pesticide Residues