Electrochemical impedimetric detection of kanamycin using molecular imprinting for food safety

Işık, Deniz and Şahin, Samet and Caglayan, Mustafa Oguzhan and Üstündağ, Zafer (2021) Electrochemical impedimetric detection of kanamycin using molecular imprinting for food safety. Microchemical Journal, 160 (Part B): 105713. ISSN 0026-265X

Abstract

In this work, molecularly imprinted kanamycin (KAN) electrodes were prepared using electrochemical polymerization of pyrrole (Py). First, a glassy carbon electrode was coated with an optimized volume of graphene oxide (GC/GO) to provide a high surface area electrode. Py is then polymerized on GC/GO electrode using cyclic voltammetry in the presence of KAN following by KAN removal using HCl (GC/GO-pPy-KAN*). Electrode preparation steps were also optimized using microscopic, spectroscopic, and electrochemical methods. Finally, the analytical performance of the prepared GC/GO-pPy-KAN* electrode was investigated for the determination of KAN. The limit of detection and the detection range was calculated as 5 nM and 5 nM–1 µM, respectively. The precision, accuracy, and interference studies showed good precision and relative error with minimum interference for the chosen substances. Moreover, real sample analysis was also performed using 4 different milk samples with good recovery values. Consequently, a novel, simple, and sensitive sensor was developed using an easy and low-cost fabrication method for the detection of KAN in food samples such as milk.