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Detection of multi-class pesticide residues with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.119478

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SERS; Atrazine; Simazin; Irgarol; Diuron; Substrate; Silver; Colloid

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  1. Croatian Government
  2. European Union through the European Regional Development Fund -the Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Programme [KK.01.1.1.01.0001, UIP-2017-057337]
  3. Croatian Science Foundation

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Excessive use of pesticides disrupts the natural balance in the environment, leading to water and food contamination. Fast, robust, and cost effective monitoring techniques are necessary for the detection of pesticides. In this study, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used successfully to detect four common pesticides, demonstrating its potential for detecting analytes at low concentrations.
The excessive use of pesticides disturbs the natural balance in the environment, creates resistance to pesticides and leads to water and food contamination. Therefore, the implementation of fast, robust and cost effective techniques for the monitoring of pesticides is required. In this work surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used for the detection of four common pesticides: atrazine, simazin, irgarol, and diuron. SERS is nowadays considered an effective technique for detection of various analytes in low concentration. Sensitivity of the SERS method depends on the type of substrate that can be either a colloidal solution of metal nanoparticles (NPs) or a metal surface with a suitable nanostructured topology. Here, we have investigated the application of silver nanospheres and silver nanoprisms as SERS substrates in pesticides detection. Colloids with spherical NPs were produced by chemical reduction while Ag nanoprisms were prepared by reducing silver nitrate with borohydride (with citrate as a stabilizing agent) and stirring under a UV lamp for 4 and 10 h. The SERS results have shown that, in the presence of synthesized NPs, it was possible to detect millimolar concentrations of aforementioned pesticides with the exception of diuron. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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