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. 2023 Mar 8;190(4):120.
doi: 10.1007/s00604-023-05700-7.

AgPdNFs and AuNOs@GO nanocomposites for T-2 toxin detection by catalytic hairpin assembly

Xia Lu #  1   2 , Long Wang #  1   2 , Baoshan He  3 , Renyong Zhao  1 , Chunqi Bai  1 , Yurong Zhang  1 , Wenjie Ren  1 , Liying Jiang  4 , Zhiguang Suo  1 , Yiwei Xu  1
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AgPdNFs and AuNOs@GO nanocomposites for T-2 toxin detection by catalytic hairpin assembly

Xia Lu et al. Mikrochim Acta. .

Abstract

T-2 toxin is the most potent and toxic mycotoxin, produced by various Fusarium species that can potentially affect human health, and widely exists in field crops and stored grain. In this work, an electrochemical aptasensor with nonenzymatic signal amplification strategy for the detection of T-2 toxin is presented, using noble metal nanocomposites and catalytic hairpin assembly as signal amplification strategy. Silver palladium nanoflowers and gold octahedron nanoparticles@graphene oxide nanocomposites are used for synergistic amplification of electrical signals. Simultaneously, the catalytic hairpin assembly strategy based on artificial molecular technology was introduced to further amplify the signal. Under optimal conditions, T-2 toxin was measured within a linear concentration range 1 × 10-2 ~ 1 × 104 pg·mL-1 with an extremely low detection limit of 6.71 fg·mL-1. The aptasensor exhibited high sensitivity, good selectivity, satisfactory stability, and excellent reproducibility. Moreover, this method had high accuracy in detecting T-2 toxin in beer sample. The encouraging results show the potential application in foodstuff analysis. A dual signal amplification electrochemical biosensor for the detection of T-2 toxins was constructed, through the signal amplification of noble metal nanomaterials and CHA strategy.

Keywords: Aptasensor; Differential pulse voltammetry; Electrochemical detection; Noble metal nanomaterials; T-2 toxin.

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