Fabrication of a novel nanocomposite electrode with ZnO-MoO3 and biochar derived from mushroom biomaterials for the detection of acetaminophen in the presence of DA

A novel two-dimensional ZnO-MoO3-C nanocomposite was synthesized by the green thermal calcination method with the biochar of mushroom derived carbon nanosheets and Zn1.5PMo12O40 polyoxometallate. The nanocomposite was used to modify a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) for the first time to construct an acetaminophen (AP) electrochemical biosensor. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherm (BET) results showed that the synthesized ZnO-MoO3-C nanocomposite has many layered nanostructure and a large surface area. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) indicated that ZnO-MoO3-C/GCE presented highly effective and accurate toward the oxidation of AP due to the stable molecular structure of the electrode surface. The DPV response of the proposed sensor exhibited selectively and sensitively determination for AP with a wider linear dependence on the concentration of AP from 2.5 to 2000 μM, and lower limits of detection (LOD) 1.14 μM, compared with other carbon-base material modified GCE and GCE electrodes. In addition, the proposed sensor was applied to detection of AP in real samples, and the recovery was the range from 94.7 to 101.0%, and RSD was less than 5%. It indicates that the proposed sensor has a hopeful capacity of extensive applications in bioanalysis and tablets.