Publication detail

Electrochemical Microsensors for the Detection of Cadmium(II) and Lead(II) Ions in Plants

KRYŠTOFOVÁ, O. TRNKOVÁ, L. ADAM, V. ZEHNÁLEK, J. HUBÁLEK, J. BABULA, P. KIZEK, R.

Original Title

Electrochemical Microsensors for the Detection of Cadmium(II) and Lead(II) Ions in Plants

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Routine determination of trace metals in complex media is still a difficult task for many analytical instruments. The aim of this work was to compare three electro-chemical instruments [a standard potentiostat (Autolab), a commercially available miniaturized potentiostat (PalmSens) and a homemade micropotentiostat] for easy-to-use and sensitive determination of cadmium(II) and lead(II) ions. The lowest detection limits (hundreds of pM) for both metals was achieved by using of the standard potentiostat, followed by the miniaturized potentiostat (tens of nM) and the homemade instrument (hundreds of nM). Nevertheless, all potentiostats were sensitive enough to evaluate contamination of the environment, because the environmental limits for both metals are higher than detection limits of the instruments. Further, we tested all used potentiostats and working electrodes on analysis of environmental samples (rainwater, flour and plant extract) with artificially added cadmium(II) and lead(II). Based on the similar results obtained for all potentiostats we choose a homemade instrument with a carbon tip working electrode for our subsequent environmental experiments, in which we analyzed maize and sunflower seedlings and rainwater obtained from various sites in the Czech Republic.

Keywords

heavy metals; lead; cadmium; miniaturization; screen printed electrode; amperometry; voltammetry; plant; maize; sunflower; water

Authors

KRYŠTOFOVÁ, O.; TRNKOVÁ, L.; ADAM, V.; ZEHNÁLEK, J.; HUBÁLEK, J.; BABULA, P.; KIZEK, R.

RIV year

2010

Released

1. 6. 2010

Publisher

MDPI

Location

KANDERERSTRASSE 25, CH-4057 BASEL, SWITZERLAND

ISBN

1424-8220

Periodical

SENSORS

Year of study

10

Number

6

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

5308

Pages to

5328

Pages count

20

URL

http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/10/6/5308

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/70095

BibTex

@article{BUT50226,
  author="Olga {Kryštofová} and Libuše {Trnková} and Vojtěch {Adam} and Josef {Zehnálek} and Jaromír {Hubálek} and Petr {Babula} and René {Kizek}",
  title="Electrochemical Microsensors for the Detection of Cadmium(II) and Lead(II) Ions in Plants",
  journal="SENSORS",
  year="2010",
  volume="10",
  number="6",
  pages="5308--5328",
  doi="10.3390/s100605308",
  issn="1424-8220",
  url="http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/10/6/5308"
}