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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03308
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Thin-film pH electrodes on thermoplastic substrates can withstand high doses of gamma radiation while maintaining stability and sensing performance, which is important for monitoring analytes in sterile environments.
Thin-film pH electrodes on thermoplastic substrates can be subjected to gamma-radiation (up to 45 kGy) without loss of stability or sensing performance, with important ramifications for monitoring analytes in sterile environments. pH-sensing membranes composed of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), trioctyl trimellitate (TOTM), and a standard hydrogen ionophore were cast onto screen-printed carbon electrodes with exfoliated graphene as a solid contact. Irradiated thin-film electrodes were conditioned in phosphate buffers and monitored for up to 3 months for changes in voltage readout and pH sensitivity, relative to untreated controls. The sensitivities of both irradiated and control electrodes were consistently Nernstian over a 100 day window, with both types exhibiting logarithmic voltage decays but in opposite directions. The gamma-irradiated electrodes had excellent long-term stability with quasi-linear voltage drifts of +0.28 mV (similar to 0.005 pH) per day. Voltage readouts from sterilized thin-film electrodes in cell culture media could be converted by single-point calibration into pH values that fell within 0.07 units relative to a commercial pH meter (calibrated daily).
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