PMID- 37866494 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231115 LR - 20231115 IS - 1879-1298 (Electronic) IS - 0045-6535 (Linking) VI - 345 DP - 2023 Dec TI - Bio-engineered sensing of Atrazine by green CdS quantum dots: Evidence from electrochemical studies and DFT simulations. PG - 140465 LID - S0045-6535(23)02735-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140465 [doi] AB - The present investigation reports a comprehensible and responsive strategy for identifying atrazine in several conditions using an extensive electrochemical method. CdS Quantum dots were synthesized via a greener approach, and their formation was endorsed by numerous characterization techniques such as FTIR, SEM, Raman, UV-Vis, and XRD. Owing to the splendid electrocatalytic behavior, Green CdS quantum dots (QDs) of crystallite size approximately 2 nm was opted as the sensor material and were, therefore, incorporated on the bare carbon paste electrode's surface. The developed sensor demonstrated an impressive outcome for atrazine sensing accompanied by superior selectivity and sensitivity. The lower detection limit (LLOD) of 0.53 muM was attained using the developed sensor in a linear concentration range of 10-100 muM. Furthermore, the practical pertinence of the developed sensor was examined on distilled water, wastewater, and fresh liquid milk, resulting in a tremendous retrieval of atrazine (91.33-99.8%). CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Singh, Simranjeet AU - Singh S AD - Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. FAU - Narasimhappa, Pavithra AU - Narasimhappa P AD - Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. FAU - Uppara, Basavaraju AU - Uppara B AD - Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. FAU - Behera, Sushant K AU - Behera SK AD - Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. FAU - Varshney, Radhika AU - Varshney R AD - Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. FAU - Naik, T S Sunil Kumar AU - Naik TSSK AD - Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. FAU - Khan, Nadeem A AU - Khan NA AD - Interdisciplinary Research Center for Membranes and Water Security, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia. FAU - Singh, Joginder AU - Singh J AD - Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Lumami, Nagaland, 798627, India. FAU - C Ramamurthy, Praveen AU - C Ramamurthy P AD - Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560012, India. Electronic address: onegroupb203@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20231020 PL - England TA - Chemosphere JT - Chemosphere JID - 0320657 RN - QJA9M5H4IM (Atrazine) RN - 0 (Drinking Water) RN - 7440-44-0 (Carbon) SB - IM MH - *Quantum Dots/chemistry MH - *Atrazine/analysis MH - *Drinking Water MH - Electrochemical Techniques MH - Carbon/chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - Atrazine OT - Electrochemical detection OT - Green approach OT - Real time analysis COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/10/23 00:43 MHDA- 2023/11/15 06:42 CRDT- 2023/10/22 19:30 PHST- 2023/05/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/10/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/10/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/11/15 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/10/23 00:43 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/10/22 19:30 [entrez] AID - S0045-6535(23)02735-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140465 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chemosphere. 2023 Dec;345:140465. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140465. Epub 2023 Oct 20.