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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Detection of Environmentally Harmful Malathion Pesticides Using a Bimetallic Oxide of CuO Nanoparticles Dispersed over a 3D ZnO Nanoflower.

Lakshmanan Gurusamy, Ru-Wen Cheng, Sambandam Anandan, Cheng-Hua Liu, Jerry J Wu

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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1 citing paper in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Recent progress in functional materials for electrochemical detection of pesticides: modification strategies, performance, and future challenges.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lakshmanan GurusamyDepartment of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.
Ru-Wen ChengDepartment of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.
Sambandam AnandanDepartment of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Trichy 620015, India.
Cheng-Hua LiuDepartment of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5864-8107
Jerry J WuDepartment of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-6702-8188
Feng Chia University · TWNational Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli · IN

Funding

National Science and Technology Council MOST-108-2221-035-054-MY3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Super-sensitive malathion detection was achieved using a nonenzymatic electrochemical sensor based on a CuO/ZnO-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE). Due to the high affinity between the Cu element and the sulfur groups in malathion, the developed CuO-ZnO/GCE sensor may bond malathion with ease, inhibiting the redox signal of the Cu element when malathion is present. In addition to significantly increasing the ability of electron transfer, the addition of 3D-flower-like ZnO enhances active sites of the sensor interface for the high affinity of malathion, giving the CuO-ZnO/GCE composite an exceptional level of sensitivity and selectivity. This enzyme-free CuO-ZnO/GCE malathion sensor demonstrates outstanding stability and excellent detection performance under optimal operating conditions with a wide linear range of malathion from 0 to 200 nM and a low detection limit of 1.367 nM. A promising alternative technique for organophosphorus pesticide (OP) determination is offered by the analytical performance of the proposed sensor, and this method can be quickly and sensitively applied to samples that have been contaminated with these pesticides.

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3D nanoflowerelectrochemical sensormalathionnonenzymaticpesticides

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PMID38004995
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