Abstract
•Facile sonochemical synthesis of honeycomb like zirconium dioxide with chitosan electrocatalyst.•ZrO2@chitosan modified electrode was applied to the electrochemical sensor application.•ZrO2@chitosan modified electrode has detected nanomolar level with broad dynamic range towards anti-tuberculosis drug.•ZrO2@chitosan modified electrode was successfully applied to the real-time analysis.
Herein, novel honeycomb like zirconium dioxide with chitosan (ZrO2@chitosan) nanocomposite have been designed through a facile ultrasound-assisted method and followed by a simple sonication process (bath-type ultrasound washer; Honda Electronics-W-118T; 100 W/cm2 and 300 kHz frequency). After then, as-synthesized ZrO2@chitosan was characterized by FESEM, XRD and EIS. The ZrO2@chitosan nanocomposite modified glassy carbon electrode shows excellent electrochemical sensing performance towards anti-tuberculosis drug (rifampicin). Furthermore, the ZrO2@chitosan modified and fabricated electrochemical sensor showed a wide linear range between 0.015 µM and 547.4 µM and nanomolar detection limit (7.5 nM). Moreover, the ZrO2@chitosan modified electrode showed selectivity towards the detection of anti-tuberculosis drug (rifampicin). The ZrO2@chitosan nanocomposite film modified non-enzymatic sensor has high stable and good reproducible towards the detection of rifampicin. In addition, the as-synthesized ZrO2@chitosan nanocomposite modified electrode has been applied to the determination of rifampicin in biological samples such as human serum and urine samples.