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Sensitive and multicolor detection of nitrite based on iodide-mediated etching of gold nanostars

Journal

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 58, Issue 93, Pages 12983-12986

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc05421c

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21804050, 22004032]
  2. Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [2021JJ20020]

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Excessive intake of nitrite poses a serious risk to human health, making research on the method of detecting nitrite in food highly significant. This study presents a colorimetric method based on iodide-mediated etching of gold nanostars, which offers high selectivity and sensitivity for nitrite determination.
Excessive intake of nitrite is a serious risk to human health. Research on the method of detecting nitrite in food is of great significance to avoid this issue. In this work, we report a colorimetric method based on iodide-mediated etching of gold nanostars (Au NSs) for the determination of nitrite with high selectivity and sensitivity. In the presence of iodide, the strong affinity between iodide and Au NSs results in the rapid etching of Au NSs into spherical gold nanoparticles, resulting in significant changes in the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectrum and the solution color. Because nitrite can oxidize iodide under acidic conditions, the etching degree of Au NSs could be controlled by adding different nitrite concentrations to consume iodide, leading to quantitative detection of nitrite. Under the optimal conditions, nitrite exhibits a good linear relationship with the absorption ratio (A(820 nm)/A(570 nm)) in the concentration range of 2-300 mu M, with a detection limit of 0.4 mu M. The as-proposed method was successfully applied to determination of nitrite in cabbage and sausage, and the results showed good reproducibility and accuracy.

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