Rapid,efficiency and portable detection systems in low-resource settings with limited laboratory equipment and technical expertise are urgently needed.Herein,an integrated platform composed of a paper-based analytical...Rapid,efficiency and portable detection systems in low-resource settings with limited laboratory equipment and technical expertise are urgently needed.Herein,an integrated platform composed of a paper-based analytical device and a smartphone detection system for Hg^2+ onsite testing was developed.Nitrogen-doped carbon dots(N-CDs)were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method using citric acid as the carbon source and ethanediamine as the nitrogen source,which gave out bright blue fluorescence under the excitation at 350 nm UV light and the absolute fluorescence quantum yield was 17.1%.The fluorescence of the prepared N-CDs can be effectively quenched by Hg^2+.In addition,an external attachment of smartphone for illumination and external light interference was designed to trace the fluorescence signals,and a software application of Android system with simple operation program was developed to perform snapshot and image processing.The smartphone-assisted detection system was combined with the N-CDs decorated paper chip to achieve the sensitive detection of Hg^2+ in water samples.This integrated method for reliable sensing of Hg^2+ shows a good linear detection range of 10–800μmol/L(R2=0.9595)with detection limit of 1.07×10^?8 mol/L.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21873039,21573087,21573092)the Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(No.2019Al515010596)+1 种基金the 44Three Levels55 of Talent Project of Zhuhai College,Jilin University,China(No.2018TL006)the Science and Technology Innovation Team Project of Zhuhai College,Jilin University,China(No.2018CXKYTD005).
文摘Rapid,efficiency and portable detection systems in low-resource settings with limited laboratory equipment and technical expertise are urgently needed.Herein,an integrated platform composed of a paper-based analytical device and a smartphone detection system for Hg^2+ onsite testing was developed.Nitrogen-doped carbon dots(N-CDs)were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method using citric acid as the carbon source and ethanediamine as the nitrogen source,which gave out bright blue fluorescence under the excitation at 350 nm UV light and the absolute fluorescence quantum yield was 17.1%.The fluorescence of the prepared N-CDs can be effectively quenched by Hg^2+.In addition,an external attachment of smartphone for illumination and external light interference was designed to trace the fluorescence signals,and a software application of Android system with simple operation program was developed to perform snapshot and image processing.The smartphone-assisted detection system was combined with the N-CDs decorated paper chip to achieve the sensitive detection of Hg^2+ in water samples.This integrated method for reliable sensing of Hg^2+ shows a good linear detection range of 10–800μmol/L(R2=0.9595)with detection limit of 1.07×10^?8 mol/L.
