Abstract
A novel Ag/Cu alloy nanoparticles and graphene nanocomposite paste electrode was fabricated and its electrochemical activity was investigated using cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance studies. Electrochemical reduction of chlorpyrifos using the nanocomposite produced peak signal based on 2e− reductive cleavage of CCl bond in trichloropyridine moiety. Increase in peak currents and decrease in overpotential for chlorpyrifos was observed for Ag/Cu–graphene nanocomposite compared to Ag–graphene, Cu–graphene, graphene paste and carbon paste electrodes. This could be attributed to the synergistic combination of graphene and Ag/Cu alloy nanoparticles with good adsorption, large surface area, increased active sites leading to fast electron transfer rates and high electrical conductivity of nanocomposite. A differential pulse adsorptive stripping voltammetric method was developed by using the above electrode for highly sensitive determination of chlorpyrifos under optimum instrumental and working conditions. A calibration plot of chlorpyrifos was studied over concentration range, 0.01–100nM and detection limits of 4×10−12M were achieved. The method was successfully applied to well waters and soil samples and recovery values were in good agreement with HPLC–UV method.
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