Voltammetric sensor based on molecular imprinted polymer for lincomycin determination

Abstract

For the selective detection of the antibiotic lincomycin, we developed a voltammetric sensor based on a glassy carbon electrode modified with reduced graphene oxide and polyarylenephthalide containing diphenylenethio and diphenyleneoxide fragments in the main chain of the polymer in the 1:1 ratio with lincomycin molecular imprints obtained by phase inversion. Using FTIR spectroscopy, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic and differential-pulse voltammetry, the electrochemical and analytical characteristics of the sensor were studied. The detection of lincomycin was carried out by differential pulse voltammetry. The linear concentration range was 2.5·10–7–5·10–4 M with a limit of detection of 6.8·10–8 M. It was shown that the presence of molecular imprints increases the sensitivity of the developed sensor in comparisons with a sensor with non-imprinted polymer by a factor of 3.05.

Keywords

• molecularly imprinted polymers
• polyarylenephthalides
• voltammetry
• lincomycin
• reduced graphene oxide
• phase inversion