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The morphological and structural characterization of nanostructured gold was conducted using field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD), which was further carried out to evaluate the electrocatalytic activity towards methyl parathion sensing. The electrochemical performance of nanostructured gold was investigated by electrochemical measurements (cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV)). The proposed nanostructured gold-modified electrode exhibited prominent electrochemical methyl parathion sensing performance (including two linear concentration ranges from 0.01 to 0.5 ppm (R2 = 0.993) and from 0.5 to 4 ppm (R2 = 0.996), limit of detection of 5.9 ppb, excellent selectivity and stability), and excellent capability in determination of pesticide residue in real fruit and vegetable samples (bok choy and strawberry). The study demonstrated that the presented approach to fabricate a nanostructured gold-modified electrode could be practically applied to detect pesticide residue in agricultural products via integrating the electrochemical and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC\/MS-MS) analysis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22249938","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,19]],"date-time":"2022-12-19T09:31:01Z","timestamp":1671442261000},"page":"9938","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Electrochemical Organophosphorus Pesticide Detection Using Nanostructured Gold-Modified Electrodes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3457-6975","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Han-Wei","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"},{"name":"Pesticide Analysis Center, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chien-Lin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yan-Hua","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"},{"name":"Pesticide Analysis Center, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu-Ming","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"},{"name":"Pesticide Analysis Center, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Feng-Jiin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"},{"name":"Pesticide Analysis Center, National United University, Miaoli 360302, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yu-Chen","family":"Tsai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"78","DOI":"10.1016\/j.snb.2013.06.075","article-title":"A novel impedimetric sensor based on molecularly imprinted polypyrrole modified pencil graphite electrode for trace level determination of chlorpyrifos","volume":"188","author":"Uygun","year":"2013","journal-title":"Sens. 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