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MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15103454
Keywords
biomimicry; Ag nanograss; chlorpyrifos; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [NRF-2017R1E1A1A01075439]
- Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) through its Ecological Imitation-Based Environmental Pollution Management Technology Development Project - Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) [2019002800009]
- Korea Medical Device Development Fund grant - Korean Government (Ministry of Science and ICT) [202012D19]
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Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphorus insecticide that is harmful to both humans and livestock due to its developmental neurotoxicity and genotoxicity. A study found that Ag-NG fabricated from natural lawns can serve as a SERS platform for the sensitive detection of CPF, enhancing its detection efficiency.
Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is widely used as an organophosphorus insecticide; however, owing to developmental neurotoxicity, genotoxicity, and other adverse effects, it is harmful not only to livestock but also to humans. Therefore, the use of CPF was recently regulated, and its sensitive detection is crucial, as it causes serious toxicity, even in the case of residual pesticides. Because it is hard to detect the chlorpyrifos directly using spectroscopy (especially in SERS) without chemical reagents, we aimed to develop a SERS platform that could detect the chlorpyrifos directly in the water. In this study, we utilized the intrinsic properties of natural lawns that grow randomly and intertwine with each other to have a large surface area to promote photosynthesis. To detect CPF sensitively, we facilitated the rapid fabrication of biomimetic Ag nanograss (Ag-NG) as a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate using the electrochemical over-deposition method. The efficiency of the SERS method was confirmed through experiments and finite element method (FEM)-based electromagnetic simulations. In addition, the sensitive detection of CPF was enhanced by pretreatment optimization of the application of the SERS technique (limit of detection: 500 nM). The Ag-NG has potential as a SERS platform that could precisely detect organic compounds, as well as various toxic substances.
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