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High sensitive electrochemical detection of silver nanoparticles based on a MoS2/graphene composite

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In this work, MoS2-reduced graphene oxide (rGO) composites were prepared by a simple hydrothermal reaction and characterized by SEM, Raman, XRD, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The obtained MoS2-rGO/GCE was used for electrochemical investigation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by cyclic voltammetry (CV), differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), and chronocoulometry (CC). It was found that the MoS2-rGO/GCE exhibited good stability and could enhance current response of AgNP electrooxidation effectively. On the basis, a new electrochemical method was developed to detect AgNPs in aqueous solution. The proposed method exhibited satisfactory analytical performance for AgNP detection with the limit of detection (LOD) as 2.63 ng/L and the linear range from 5 to 120 ng/L. The determination assays in water samples by MoS2-rGO/GCE were also discussed. The assay recoveries in water samples were obtained as 94.9–99.4%. That suggested a promising application prospect in environmental analysis.

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The MoS2-rGO/GCE enhanced the electrochemical response of AgNPs, which are attributed from the Ag absorbability of MoS2 and the electrochemical signal amplification of rGO. This finding resulted in a new electrochemical approach to simple detection of AgNPs in water

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Open Foundation of Hubei Key Laboratory for Processing and Transformation of Agricultural Products (No. 2020HBSQGDKFB08), National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2019YFC1606000), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32001772), and University Research Project of Wuhan Polytechnic University (No. 04).

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  1. Key Laboratory for Deep Processing of Major Grain and Oil of Ministry of Education, College of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China

    Jianyue He, Shuo Duan, Qiao Wang, Lin Xu, Yan Liu, Min Fang & Qing Yang

  2. Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Shuo Duan & Rui Yue

  3. School of Resources and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, People’s Republic of China

    Rui Yue

  4. Department of Physi-Chemical Inspection, **an Center for Disease Control and Prevention, **an, 250022, China

    **n Zhang

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He, J., Duan, S., Yue, R. et al. High sensitive electrochemical detection of silver nanoparticles based on a MoS2/graphene composite. J Nanopart Res 24, 92 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-022-05454-y

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