Rational designing of ZIF-67-derived Co3O4 nanocomposite with hierarchical porous structure and extensive peroxidase mimetic activities for highly sensitive colorimetric detection of nitrite in drinking water
摘要
A simple, fast, and cost-effective colorimetric nitrite (NO2−) sensor based on ZIF-67-derived Co3O4 nanocomposite (ZCo-2 NC) structure has been developed. The prepared colorimetric sensor (ZCo-2 NC) was employed to sensitively detect NO2− in drinking water system by the exhibition of promising peroxidase-mimicking nanozyme-like features. The sensor manifest well-determined sensing response with excellent linear and wide range of NO2− sensitivity (0.001–0.810 μM). The lower detection-limit (LOD) and lower quantification-limit (LOQ) were 0.14 ± 0.05 nM and 0.72 ± 0.05 nM, respectively, which is far below the US-EPA limit (21.7 μM). Further, the sensor also provides strong selectivity response to NO2−, better reversibility (12 cycles), and commendable stability of 10 weeks. In addition, it also perceived astonishing practicality towards NO2− in real water samples. Thus, this study opens a new pathway for the sensitive detection of NO2− in drinking water for future endeavor.
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