Construction of modified screen-printed graphite electrode for the application in electrochemical detection of sunset yellow in food samples

Abstract

The current work introduced a novel electrochemical sensor (screen-printed graphite electrode (SPGE) modified with MnO2 nanorods anchored graphene oxide nanocomposite (MnO2 NRs/GO) for sensitive determination of sunset yellow. The characterization of MnO2 NRs/GO nanocomposite synthesized through a simple hydrothermal approach was determined employing varied analytical equipment like Field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Chronoamperometric measurements, differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) were recruited to recognize the electrochemical oxidation of sunset yellow on the MnO2 NRs/GO/SPGE. The results of CV proved that the as-synthesized MnO2 NRs/GO nanocomposite has a good electrocatalytic activity toward sunset yellow. The MnO2 NRs/GO/SPGE electrode under optimized conditions using the DPV possessed a linear response for different concentrations of sunset yellow (between 0.01 and 115.0μM) with a low limit of detection (LOD) (0.008μM). Finally, the impressive applicability of this sensor was confirmed via real sample analysis with excellent recoveries (between 97.3 and 104.6%).