Journal
ACS SENSORS
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 1442-1451Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b00680
Keywords
nano-optoelectronic nose; volatile metabolome; ultrahigh sensitivity; discrimination; gold nanoparticles; silver nanoparticles
Funding
- Shiraz University Research Council
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Paper-based optoelectronic noses (OENs) are being developed based on printing of organic and organometallic reagents on hydrophilic substrates that can visualize the odor of volatiles. In this work, we report for the first time the use of nanoparticles for fabrication of novel paper-based OENs, which represent much higher sensitivity and produce simple but discriminant colorimetric signature of volatile metabolomes. This nano-optoelectronic nose (NOEN) system, which is fabricated by dropping of gold and silver nanoparticles (each synthesized by 8 chemical species) on the paper, gives obvious colorimetric signatures for chemicals having individual or combined functional groups. Owning to their ultrasensitivity, these simple devices need very small amounts of analytes. These devices could detect and discriminate 45 volatile organic compounds in 9 chemical families including phenols, alchohols, ketones, aldehydes, amines, acids, esters, arenes, and hydrocarbons. In addition to excellent discrimination ability, this NOEN sensor shows ultrahigh sensitivity such that could determine volatile compounds with detection limits around or lower than 10 ppb. Moreover, it can be combined with multivariate calibration methods for quantitative analysis of a metabolite in a complex mixture.
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