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Simple and rapid colorimetric visualization of tetramethylthiuram disulfide (thiram) sensing based on anti-aggregation of gold nanoparticles

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FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 384, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.132223

Keywords

Gold nanoparticles; 4-ABT; Silver ions; Thiram sensing; Colorimetric method

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21904046, 22074048]

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A convenient and rapid detection method for thiram residues was developed using gold nanoparticles encoded with 4-aminothiophenol. The detection is based on monitoring the aggregation process and color change of the nanoparticles, which offers good sensitivity and specificity, simple operation, and rapid detection.
Thiram is widely used in agriculture and can pose high toxicity to humans through food and soil contamination, suggesting the necessity to develop a method for convenient and rapid detection of thiram residues. Herein, we synthesized gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) encoded with 4-aminothiophenol (4-ABT) (Au NPs@4-ABT), whose aggregation process can be triggered by silver ions (Ag+), but can also be specifically inhibited by the competitive reaction between thiram and Ag+. By monitoring the color change of Au NPs@4-ABT probe, the thiram concentration can be detected within 15 min with detection limit of 0.04 mu M over a linear range of 0.05-2.0 mu M. This visualization method has the advantages of good sensitivity and specificity, simple operation, rapid detection, and not requiring any large instrument or sophisticated design, and its practicability has also been verified in apple and soil, indicating its great potential for on-site evaluation of thiram in real samples.

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