Journal
FOOD CONTROL
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 379-386Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.10.013
Keywords
Melamine; Milk; Diazonium salts; Photopolymerization; Molecularly imprinted polymers; Electrochemical sensors
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- CNRS
- Agence Francaise pour la Francophonie (AUF)
- INRAP (Tunisia)
- Agence Francaise pour la Promotion de l'Enseignement Superieur (IFC)
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In this work, diazonium-based photoinitiators were electrografted on gold electrodes to provide specific, selective and ultrasensitive molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) grafts for the detection of melamine. This toxic molecule was used as a template, while methacrylic acid (MAA) and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) were the functional and crosslinking monomers, respectively. Surface-initiated photopolymerization was conducted because it is a simple and versatile mean for making ultrathin MIP grafts (similar to 25 nm thick). Both cyclic and square wave voltammetry (SWV) were used for investigating rebinding melamine by the MIP grafts. However, the latter permitted to achieve ultrasensitive detection down to 7.7 x 10(-10) mol/L in PBS and 3.1 x 10(-10) mol/L in milk. Recovery was found to be very good, levelling off at 92%. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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