Application of Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor with Polypyrrole Chitosan Graphene Oxide layer to Detect the Napropamide

A polypyrrole Chitosan Graphene Oxide (PPy-Chi/GO) composite layer was prepared using the electro-chemical method. The PPy-Chi/GO layer was used to measure the low concentration of napropamide. In this study, the PPy-Chi/GO composite layer was deposited on the gold layer side of a microscope's glass slide in different thicknesses. The morphology, thickness, roughness, and refractive index of the layer were obtained using field effect scanning electron microscopy, profilemeter, atomic force microscopy, and the surface plasmon resonance technique. The structure of the composite layer was investigated using X-Ray diffraction. The peak that were observed from X-ray diffraction was at 9.9°, corresponding to GO, and the broad peak between 25° and 27° was related to polypyrrole and chitosan. The PPy-Chi/GO layer was used to measure the concentration of napropamide dissolved in hexane in the range of 0.01 to 100 ppm using the surface plasmon resonance technique; the limitation of sensor was 0.1 ppm.