Sensing of Alphacypermethrin Pesticide Using Modified Electrode of Chitosan-Silver Nanowire Nanocomposite Langmuir Blodgett Film

We report on the sensing of a hazardous pesticide alphacypermethrin (ACM) using electrochemical technique through a nanocomposite film modified electrode. The nanocomposite film comprising of octadecylamine, chitosan, polyvinyl alcohol-silver nanowires and haemoglobin, shortly (OCPAH), was prepared by Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film deposition technique on various substrates and electrodes. The composite LB film was characterised by UV-visible spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy, which confirms the stable and multilayer film. The LB film modified electrode was used for sensing ACM pesticide by cyclic voltammetry (CV), differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), and square wave voltammetry (SWV) techniques. The achieved sensing parameters such as limit of detection as 14 nM, 5 nM and 10 nM; linear range as 10–100 nM, 10–40 nM and 50–100 nM/10–100 nM; and sensitivity as 0.418 µA/nM/cm2, 0.259 µA/nM/cm2 and 0.271 µA/nM/cm2 for CV, DPV and SWV techniques, respectively. The reported sensor is found to have stability of 74% upto 20 cycles, the relative standard deviation (RSD) value for metal ion/organic interference species as 2% and for real samples are within 1.4% using CV technique. The reported nanocomposite-based ACM pesticide sensor will open up new options for research on LB film nanocomposite-based sensing of different organophosphorus groups of pesticides.