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Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine) is well known nonselective and broad-spectrum herbicide that has been extensively used in agricultural areas around the world to increase agricultural productivity. However, the utilization of glyphosate can cause environmental contamination and health problems. Therefore, the detection of glyphosate with a fast, low-cost, and portable sensor is still important. In this work, the electrochemical sensor has been developed by modifying of working surface on the screen-printed silver electrode (SPAgE) with a mixtures solution between zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDDA) by the drop-casting process. The ZnO-NPs have been prepared based on a sparking method by using pure zinc wires. The ZnO-NPs/PDDA/SPAgE sensor shows a wide range of glyphosate detection (0µM-5 mM). The limit of detection of ZnO-NPs/PDDA/SPAgE is 2.84µM. The ZnO-NPs/PDDA/SPAgE sensor exhibits high selective towards glyphosate with minimal interference from other commonly used herbicides including paraquat, butachlor-propanil and glufosinate-ammonium. Furthermore, the ZnO-NPs/PDDA/SPAgE sensor demonstrates a good estimation of glyphosate concentration in real samples such as green tea, corn juice and mango juice.

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Herbicides are used constantly in agriculture to enhance productivity across the globe. This herbicide monitoring requires utmost importance since its high dose leads to ecological imbalance and a negative impact on the environment. Moreover, a quantification of toxic herbicide is one of the important problems in the food analysis. In this work, deals with the development of a simple, and facile one-pot sonochemical synthesis of strontium doped La2S3 (Sr@La2S3). Morphological and structural characterization confirms the doping of Sr@La2S3 to generate a hierarchical layered structure. The electrochemical performance of modified with rotating disk electrode (RDE) using Sr@La2S3 composite is high, compared to La2S3 and bare electrodes towards the quantitative detection of mesotrione (MTO) in phosphate buffer. Sr@La2S3/RDE showed good sensitivity for MTO detection and it exhibit a range of 0.01-307.01 µM and limit of detection of 2.4 nM. Besides, the selectivity of fabricated electrode is high as it can electrochemically reduce MTO particularly, even in the presence of other chemicals, biological molecules and inorganic ions. The repeatability of MTO detection is high even after 30 days with a lower RSD values. Hence, simple fabrication of Sr@La2S3/RDE could be a novel electrode for the sensitive, selective, and reproducible determination of herbicides in real-time applications.

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A novel amperometric algae-based biosensor was developed for the detection of photosynthetic herbicides in river water. The green photosynthetic algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was immobilized on carbon black modified screen-printed electrodes, exploiting carbon black as smart nanomaterial to monitor changes in algae oxygen evolution during the photosynthetic process. The decrease of oxygen evolution, occurring in the presence of herbicides, results in a decrease of current signals by means of amperometric measurements, in an analyte concentration dependent manner. Atrazine as case study herbicide was detected in a concentration range of 0.1 and 50 µM, with a linear range from 0.1 to 5 µM and a detection limit of 1 nM. No interference was observed in presence of 100 ppb arsenic, 20 ppb copper, 5 ppb cadmium, 10 ppb lead, 10 ppb bisphenol A, and 1 ppb paraoxon, tested as safety limits. A ~25% matrix effect and satisfactory recovery values of 107 ± 10% and 96 ± 8% were obtained in river water for 3 and 5 µM of atrazine, respectively. Stability studies were also performed obtaining a high working stability up to 10 h and repeatability with an RSD of 1.1% (n = 12), as well as a good storage stability up to 3 weeks.

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The present work is dedicated to the development of a lab-on-chip (LOC) device for water toxicity environmental analysis and more especially herbicide detection. The final goal is focused on the functional integration of three-electrode electrochemical microcells (ElecCell) and organic photodetectors (OPD) in order to perform simultaneously electrochemical and optical detection in the frame of algal metabolism monitoring. Considering three different algae, ie. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata and Chlorella vulgaris while dealing with photosynthesis, the multi-microsensor platform enables to measure the variations of microalgae fluorescence as well as oxygen production. It is applied to study the Diuron herbicide influences on algal metabolism, evidencing fluorescence enhancement and oxygen production inhibition for concentrations as low as few tens of nanomoles. These results are performed with unconcentrated and six time concentrated algae solutions respectively, to estimate the ability of this dual-sensor system to conduct measurements without any sample preparation. Thus, according to the obtained results, the proposed LOC device is fully adapted to the electrochemical/optical dual detection for on-site pollutant analysis, ie. without sample pre-treatment.

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The present work was dedicated to the development of a lab-on-chip device for water toxicity analysis and more particularly herbicide detection in water. It consists in a portable system for on-site detection composed of three-electrode electrochemical microcells, integrated on a fluidic platform constructed on a glass substrate. The final goal is to yield a system that gives the possibility of conducting double, complementary detection: electrochemical and optical and therefore all materials used for the fabrication of the lab-on-chip platform were selected in order to obtain a device compatible with optical technology. The basic detection principle consisted in electrochemically monitoring disturbances in metabolic photosynthetic activities of algae induced by the presence of Diuron herbicide. Algal response, evaluated through oxygen (O2) monitoring through photosynthesis was different for each herbicide concentration in the examined sample. A concentration-dependent inhibition effect of the herbicide on photosynthesis was demonstrated. Herbicide detection was achieved through a range (blank - 1 µM Diuron herbicide solution) covering the limit of maximum acceptable concentration imposed by Canadian government (0.64 µM), using a halogen white light source for the stimulation of algal photosynthetic apparatus. Superior sensitivity results (limit of detection of around 0.1 µM) were obtained with an organic light emitting diode (OLED), having an emission spectrum adapted to algal absorption spectrum and assembled on the final system.

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