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Lanthanide type of cerium sulfide embedded carbon nitride composite modified electrode for potential electrochemical detection of sulfaguanidine

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Environmental sustainability is threatened by the widespread exploitation and unfettered release of chemical pollutants that require immediate detection and eradication. An instantaneous quantification technique is essential to understand the physiological roles of the antibacterial drug sulfaguanidine (SGN) in biological systems. The present work features the green and environmentally benign synthesis of rare earth metal sulfide nanorods incorporated carbon nitrides sheets (Ce2S3@CNS) by deep eutectic solvent-based fabrication with remarkable electrochemical properties. The morphological and structural analyses of the prepared electrocatalyst were characterized using various techniques including SEM, XRD, XPS, and EIS. The heterojunction of regimented structures bids synergistic quantum confinement effects and refines charge carriers endorsing enormous active sites. Furthermore, the obtained Ce2S3@CNS/GCE possess an exceedingly lower limit of detection (0.0053 μM) and high sensitivity of 8.685 μA·μM−1·cm−2 with superior electrocatalytic action and virtuous stability for the detection of SGN. This modified electrode could afford linearity in the range 0.01–1131.5 μM measured at 0.95 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) correlated to the concentration of SGN. Examining the real samples with this advanced electrocatalyst would support its hands-on applications in everyday life. Development of such innovative architectures with fewer energy necessities and nominal by-products scripts the superiority in characteristic synthetic methodology following the guidelines of green chemistry.

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This work was funded by the Researchers Supporting Project Number (RSP-2021/243) King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Special Research Project-MOST-108-2221-E-027-063).

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  1. Department of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Sec. 3, Chung-Hsiao East Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    I. Jenisha Daisy Priscillal & Sea-Fue Wang

  2. Chemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Asma A. Alothman

  3. Department of Chemistry, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode, India

    Rameshkumar Arumugam

  4. Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan-si, 31253, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea

    Rameshkumar Arumugam

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Priscillal, I.J.D., Alothman, A.A., Wang, SF. et al. Lanthanide type of cerium sulfide embedded carbon nitride composite modified electrode for potential electrochemical detection of sulfaguanidine. Microchim Acta 188, 313 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-021-04975-y

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