Organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) are highly favored due to effects of high efficiency and wide action and are normally used as
agricultural pesticides and herbicides, while a series of serious healthproblems, such as dizziness,
vomiting,
diarrhea and
muscle tremor even death, can be caused to a
human body due to OPs residue, and thus, a real-time quantitative detection method for OPs is urgentlyneeded to be designed and developed. Here, a visual colorimetric detection technology is built for the
organophosphorus pesticides. According to the visual colorimetric detection technology, triazophos is selected as an organophosphorus
pesticide representative model molecule, acetylthiocholine
iodide (ATCI) is used as a
acetylcholinesterase (AchE) catalytic substrate, the ATCI can be catalyzed and decomposed to sulfhydryl
choline, and I2-induced
gold nanorod etching can be prevented by reduction sulfhydryl at a
tail end; when OPs exist, the activity of the AchE is suppressed, no reduction sulfhydryl is generated, I<-> can be oxidized by KIO3 to generate I2,
etching reaction of the
gold nanorod is finally triggered by the I2, the
gold nanorod with OPs
concentration dependence longitudinally absorbs
peak location blue shift, and color change of a gold
nanorod solution is caused. By the novel method, favorable performance actual application ability of organophosphorus
pesticide detection can be verified, and the method has obvious creativity and application value.