Abstract:In order to ensure food safety and realize the rapid and sensitive detection of mequindox residue in food, carboxylated high purity single-walled carbon nanotubes were fixed on the surface of the gold electrode to construct a novel mequindox electrochemical sensor. Cyclic voltammetry (CV), differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and electrochemical impedance (EIS) were used to investigate the performance of the sensor. The results showed that the performed sensor had remarkable catalytic performance on the electrochemical reduction of mequindox. The peak current of the modified electrode reached as 128.4 A, which was 1,160 times that of the bare gold electrode. The factors affecting the performance of the performed sensor were also optimized. The optimal conditions for the experiment were that the coated volume of cSWCNTs were 4 μL, the stirred speed was sat as 1000 rpm, and the performed electrode was enriched at 0.5 V in 0.2 mol/L PBS buffer (pH=7.0) for 30 min. Under the optimal experimental conditions, the peak current of the sensor had a good linear relationship with mequindox in the concentration range of 1.0~500.0 nmol/L, the correlation coefficient was 0.998, and the detection limit of the method was 0.76 nmol/L. The sensor was successfully applied to the actual sample detection with the standard recovery rate of 81.7%-124 %.