In this study,gold nanoparticles(AuNPs)were synthesized for rapid and sensitive characterization and quantification of chlorpyrifos in apples.Min-max signal adaptive zooming and second derivative transformation method...In this study,gold nanoparticles(AuNPs)were synthesized for rapid and sensitive characterization and quantification of chlorpyrifos in apples.Min-max signal adaptive zooming and second derivative transformation method were adopted to pre-process Raman spectral signal.The min-max signal adaptive zooming method showed a higher correlation coefficient than derivative transformation when developing linear calibration curve between chlorpyrifos pesticide and Raman spectral peak intensity.The present method had a high reproducibility with the relative standard deviation less than 15%.Regression models showed a good linear relationship(R=0.962)between intensity of characteristic spectral peaks(at 677 cm-1)and chlorpyrifos concentration on whole apples ranging from 0.13 mg/kg to 7.59 mg/kg.The application of surface enhancement Raman spectroscopy(SERS)detected chlorpyrifos pesticide to the detection limit of 0.13 mg/kg,which can be applied further for lower concentration in the future.The method presented in this study can provide a way-out for detection of pesticide residue in whole apple to trace amount.展开更多
基金The authors wish to thank the National Key Technology R&D Program(Project No.2015BAD19B03 and 2013BAD19B02),China,for providing funding support for this research.
文摘In this study,gold nanoparticles(AuNPs)were synthesized for rapid and sensitive characterization and quantification of chlorpyrifos in apples.Min-max signal adaptive zooming and second derivative transformation method were adopted to pre-process Raman spectral signal.The min-max signal adaptive zooming method showed a higher correlation coefficient than derivative transformation when developing linear calibration curve between chlorpyrifos pesticide and Raman spectral peak intensity.The present method had a high reproducibility with the relative standard deviation less than 15%.Regression models showed a good linear relationship(R=0.962)between intensity of characteristic spectral peaks(at 677 cm-1)and chlorpyrifos concentration on whole apples ranging from 0.13 mg/kg to 7.59 mg/kg.The application of surface enhancement Raman spectroscopy(SERS)detected chlorpyrifos pesticide to the detection limit of 0.13 mg/kg,which can be applied further for lower concentration in the future.The method presented in this study can provide a way-out for detection of pesticide residue in whole apple to trace amount.
