Comparison of Glyphosate Detection by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Gold and Silver Nanoparticles at Different Laser Excitations

Mikac, Lara; Rigó, István; Škrabić, Marko; Ivanda, Mile; Veres, Miklós (2022) Comparison of Glyphosate Detection by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Gold and Silver Nanoparticles at Different Laser Excitations. Molecules, 27 (18). ISSN 1420-3049

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Abstract

Glyphosate is one of the most widely used pesticides in the world, but it has been shown to persist in the environment and therefore needs to be detected in food. In this work, the detection of glyphosate by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) using gold and silver nanoparticles and three different commonly used laser excitations (532, 632, and 785 nm wavelengths) of a Raman microscope complemented with a portable Raman spectrometer with 785 nm excitation is compared. The silver and gold nanosphere SERS substrates were prepared by chemical synthesis. In addition, colorimetric detection of glyphosate using cysteamine-modified gold and silver nanoparticles was also tested. The best results were obtained with Ag NPs at 532 nm excitation with a detection limit of 1 mM and with Au nanoparticles at 785 nm excitation with a detection limit of 100 µM. The SERS spectra of glyphosate with cysteamine-modified silver NPs improved the detection limits by two orders of magnitude for 532 nm excitation, i.e., up to 10 µM, and by one order of magnitude for 632 and 785 nm excitation wavelengths.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	SERS; glyphosate; substrate; pesticides; silver; gold; colloid
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Chemistry NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology > Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Divisions:	Division of Materials Physics
Depositing User:	Diana Mikoč Radešić
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2024 09:12
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/8425
DOI:	10.3390/molecules27185767

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