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Jiokeng SLZ, Matemb Ma Ntep TJ, Fetzer MNA, Strothmann T, Fotsop CG, Kenfack Tonle I, Janiak C. Efficient Electrochemical Lead Detection by a Histidine-Grafted Metal-Organic Framework MOF-808 Electrode Material. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:2509-2521. [PMID: 38170818 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c15931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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As the excessive presence of heavy metals in the environment significantly affects human health, it becomes necessary to develop efficient, selective, and sensitive methods for their detection. In this study, a novel electrochemical sensor for the detection of Pb2+ ions is described. The proposed sensor is based on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) modified by a thin film of histidine-grafted metal-organic framework (MOF-808-His). The MOF-808 was obtained solvothermally, and then postsynthetically modified by substituting the coordinated acetate with histidinate. By electrochemistry, the MOF-808-His-modified GCE demonstrated high charge selectivity, while electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and kinetic studies gave a lower charge transfer resistance (4196 Ω) and a better standard heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant (1.80 × 10-5 cm s-1) on MOF-808-modified GCE. These results indicated a swift and direct electron transfer rate from [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- to the electrode surface. Using square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV), the rapid and highly sensitive determination of Pb2+ was achieved on MOF-808-His-modified GCE. By optimizing the accumulation-detection parameters including pH of the detection medium, deposition time and potential, and concentration, a remarkable limit of detection (LoD, based on a signal-to-noise ratio of 3) of (1.12 × 10-10 ± 0.10 × 10-10) mol L-1 was obtained, with a sensitivity of (9.6 ± 0.1) μA L μmol-1. After interference and stability studies, the MOF-808-His-modified GCE was applied to the detection of Pb2+ in a tap water sample with a concentration of 10 μmol L-1 Pb2+.
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- Sherman Lesly Zambou Jiokeng
- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Electrochemistry and Chemistry of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Dschang, P.O. Box 67, 00237 Dschang, Cameroon
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering, Universität Platz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Electrochemistry and Chemistry of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Dschang, P.O. Box 67, 00237 Dschang, Cameroon
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- Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Okpara EC, Fayemi OE, Wojuola OB, Onwudiwe DC, Ebenso EE. Electrochemical detection of selected heavy metals in water: a case study of African experiences. RSC Adv 2022; 12:26319-26361. [PMID: 36275116 PMCID: PMC9475415 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra02733j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The safety of water resources throughout the globe has been compromised by various human activities and climate change over the last decades. Consequently, the world is currently confronted with a severe shortage of water supply and a water safety crisis, amidst a growing population. With poor environmental regulations, indiscriminate budding of urban slums, poverty, and a lack of basic knowledge of hygiene and sanitation, the African water supply has been critically threatened by different organic and inorganic contaminants, which results in several health issues. Inorganic pollutants such as heavy metals are particularly of interest because they are mostly stable and non-biodegradable. Therefore, they are not easily removed from water. In different parts of the continent, the concentration of heavy metals in drinking water far exceeds the permissible level recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Worse still, this problem is expected to increase with growing population, industrialization, urbanization, and, of course, corruption of government and local officials. Most of the African population is ignorant of the standards of safe water. In addition, the populace lack access to affordable and reliable technologies and tools that could be used in the quantification of these pollutants. This problem is not only applicable to domestic, but also to commercial, communal, and industrial water sources. Hence, a global campaign has been launched to ensure constant assessment of the presence of these metals in the environment and to promote awareness of dangers associated with unsafe exposure to them. Various conventional spectroscopic heavy metal detection techniques have been used with great success across the world. However, such techniques suffer from some obvious setbacks, such as the cost of procurement and professionalism required to operate them, which have limited their applications. This paper, therefore, reviews the condition of African water sources, health implications of exposure to heavy metals, and the approaches explored by various indigenous electrochemists, to provide a fast, affordable, sensitive, selective, and stable electrochemical sensors for the quantification of the most significant heavy metals in our water bodies.
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- Enyioma C Okpara
- Department of Physics, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University (Mafikeng Campus) Private Bag X2046 Mmabatho 2735 South Africa
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University (Mafikeng Campus) Private Bag X2046 Mmabatho 2735 South Africa
- Material Science Innovation and Modelling (MaSIM) Research Focus Area, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University (Mafikeng Campus) Private Bag X2046 Mmabatho 2735 South Africa
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- Department of Physics, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University (Mafikeng Campus) Private Bag X2046 Mmabatho 2735 South Africa
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University (Mafikeng Campus) Private Bag X2046 Mmabatho 2735 South Africa
- Material Science Innovation and Modelling (MaSIM) Research Focus Area, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University (Mafikeng Campus) Private Bag X2046 Mmabatho 2735 South Africa
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- College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa Johannesburg 1710 South Africa
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Gao J, Wang R, Lu X, Jia C, Sun Q, Huang J, Wei S, Ma L. Enzymatic Preparation and Structure-activity Relationship of Sesaminol. J Oleo Sci 2021; 70:1261-1274. [PMID: 34373408 DOI: 10.5650/jos.ess21112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As a valuable natural antioxidant, sesaminol can be used in food and medicine industries, but it is trace in sesame seeds and oil, and it is feasible to prepare sesaminol from sesaminol triglucoside (STG) which is abundant in defatted sesame cake. Therefore, in order to establish an effective enzymatic preparation method and elucidate the antioxidant structure-activity relationship of sesaminol, a suitable glycosidase for preparing sesaminol from STG were screened, enzymatic hydrolysis was optimized by single-factor test and response surface methodology, and finally, the structure-activity relationship of sesaminol was illustrated by comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA). These results suggested that β-galactosidase was the optimal glycosidase for enzymatic hydrolysis of STG to prepare sesaminol. Under the optimal conditions of a reaction temperature of 50°C, reaction time of 4.0 h, pH of 5.5, substrate concentration of 1.0 mg/mL, and enzyme dosage of 20 mg/mL, the conversion rate of sesaminol was 98.88±0.67%. Sesaminol displayed excellent antioxidant ability in 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH, IC50 = 0.0011 mg/mL), 2,2'-azinobis-(3-ethyl-benzothiazoline-6-sulfonate) (ABTS, IC50 = 0.0021 mg/mL) radical scavenging activities and Ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP, 103.2998 mol/g) compared to other sesaminol derivatives. According to -log (IC50 of DPPH) and -log (IC50 of ABTS), CoMFA models were successfully established based on Q2 >0.5 (QDPPH 2 = 0.558, QABTS 2 = 0.534). The active site of sesaminol tended to be located on the hydroxyl group of the benzene ring (R1 position). A positive correlation between the bulky and positively charged groups at the 1H, 3H-furo [3, 4-c] furan group, the small, negatively charged groups at the R1 position and the antioxidant activity of sesaminol. This study provides an effective method to prepare sesaminol, reveals the structure-activity relationship of sesaminol and provides theoretical basis to design the novel compound.
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- Jinhong Gao
- Research Centre for Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Research Centre for Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Research Centre for Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Institute of Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Institute of Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Research Centre for Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences.,Institute of Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Institute of Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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- Research Centre for Agricultural and Sideline Products Processing, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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Engineering multi-shell Mn-Co oxide for ultrasensitive electroanalysis of Pb(II) in mining subsidence area water with promotion of adsorption and electron mediation: Behaviors and mechanisms of Mn(II)/Mn(III) and Co(II)/Co(III) cycles. Electrochim Acta 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.136991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Zhao X, Li S, Yu X, Gang R, Wang H. In situ growth of CeO 2 on g-C 3N 4 nanosheets toward a spherical g-C 3N 4/CeO 2 nanozyme with enhanced peroxidase-like catalysis: a selective colorimetric analysis strategy for mercury(II ). NANOSCALE 2020; 12:21440-21446. [PMID: 33079127 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr05315e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Cerium dioxide (CeO2) nanocatalysts were initially grown in situ on 2D graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) nanosheets to yield the nanocomposites g-C3N4/CeO2 with a spherical structure for the catalysis-based colorimetric analysis of Hg2+ ions in blood and wastewater. As the synergetic introduction of g-C3N4 nanosheets might promote the electron transfer in CeO2, the resulting g-C3N4/CeO2 nanozyme was found to present greatly enhanced catalytic activity, as demonstrated by the steady-state kinetic studies, which is nearly 4-fold higher than that of pure CeO2. Moreover, the g-C3N4/CeO2 nanozymes would aggregate in the presence of Hg2+ ions due to the strong interaction between Hg2+ and the nitrogen of g-C3N4, leading to a decrease of catalysis rationally depending on the Hg2+ ion concentration. A colorimetric analysis strategy is therefore developed for the selective detection of Hg2+ ions separately in the complex samples of blood and wastewater, showing a linear concentration range from 0.50 nM to 800 nM with the LOD of 0.23 nM as exemplified for Hg2+ ions in blood. Also, the recovery tests indicated that the developed colorimetric method can allow for the accurate analysis of Hg2+ ions in wastewater and blood. Such a route for the fabrication of composite nanozymes by growing catalytic nanomaterials on conductive 2D substrates may be extended to the design of other kinds of nanozymes with enhanced catalytic performances for developing catalysis-based detection platforms.
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- Xiaoting Zhao
- Institute of Medicine and Materials Applied Technologies, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong 273165, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Medicine and Materials Applied Technologies, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong 273165, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Medicine and Materials Applied Technologies, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong 273165, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Medicine and Materials Applied Technologies, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong 273165, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Medicine and Materials Applied Technologies, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong 273165, P. R. China.
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