Ultrasonic-assisted preparation and characterization of magnetic ZnFeO/g-CN nanomaterial and their applications towards electrocatalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol.

Nanoball-structured ferromagnetic zinc ferrite nanocrystals (ZnFeO NPs) entrapped with graphitic-carbon nitride (g-CN) was produced via straightforward and facile sonochemical synthetical technique (titanium probe; 100 W/cm and 50 KHz). The morphological (SEM), elemental (EDS), diffraction (XRD), XPS, and electrochemical studies (CV) have been carry out to verify the nanostructure and shape of the materials. The ZnFeO NPs/g-CN electrode (GCE) was constructed which displayed outstanding electrochemical ability towards toxic 4-nitrophenol (NTP). A sensitive, selective, reproducible, and durable electrochemical NTP sensor was developed by ZnFeO NPs/g-CN modified electrode. The modified sensor exhibited a high sensitivity and 4.17 nanomolars of LOD. It's greater than the LOD of previously reported NTP modified sensors. The real-time experiments of the modified electrochemical (ZnFeO NPs/g-CN electrode) sensor were successfully explained in various water (river and drinking) samples and its showed high standard recoveries. Therefore, sonochemical synthetical method and fabrication of modified electrode were developed this work based on environmental analysis of NTP sensor.