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In this study, cyclic voltammetric and differential pulse voltammetric techniques were used in order to individually and simultaneously detect two pesticides, i.e., carbaryl (CR) and paraquat (PQ), from an acetate buffer solution and also from natural apple juice. A graphene-modified boron-doped diamond electrode, denoted BDDGR, was obtained and successfully applied in the simultaneous detection of CR and PQ pesticides, using the differential pulse voltammetric technique with remarkable electroanalytical parameters in terms of sensitivity: 33.27 \u03bcA \u03bcM\u22121 cm\u22122 for CR and 31.83 \u03bcA \u03bcM\u22121 cm\u22122 for PQ. These outstanding results obtained in the acetate buffer supporting electrolyte allowed us to simultaneously detect the targeted pesticides in natural apple juice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17092033","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,6]],"date-time":"2017-09-06T11:23:34Z","timestamp":1504697014000},"page":"2033","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["Simultaneous Voltammetric Detection of Carbaryl and Paraquat Pesticides on Graphene-Modified Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Aniela","family":"Pop","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Chemistry and Environmental Engineering and Inorganic Compounds, Politehnica University of Timisoara, P-ta Victoriei No. 2, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Florica","family":"Manea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Chemistry and Environmental Engineering and Inorganic Compounds, Politehnica University of Timisoara, P-ta Victoriei No. 2, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Adriana","family":"Flueras","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Chemistry and Environmental Engineering and Inorganic Compounds, Politehnica University of Timisoara, P-ta Victoriei No. 2, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joop","family":"Schoonman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Chemical Technology, Section Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"201","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chroma.2004.12.003","article-title":"Determination of 266 pesticide residues in apple juice matrix solid-phase dispersion and gas chromatography-mass selective detection","volume":"1063","author":"Chu","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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