Journal
MICROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 187, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-020-04620-0
Keywords
Mesoporous silica; Nitrite determination; Griess assay; Colorimetric sensor; Digital image colorimetry
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- Graduate School, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus
- Faculty of Technology and Environment, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket Campus
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A novel colorimetric sheet based on Griess reagent-doped mesoporous silica nanoparticles was developed for nitrite detection. Griess reagent was adsorbed on long-range ordered hexagonal mesoporous silica nanoparticles and developed ink-bottle pores with some disorder. When the modified nanoparticles were bound using starch to fabricate a thin (similar to 313 mu m) colorimetric sheet, spherical particles with a rougher surface and some distortion of their mesoporosity were observed. The sheet was used in conjunction with digital image colorimetry (DIC) and provides a wide linear range of 0.05 to 2.50 mg L-1 with a low detection limit (15.0 mu g L-1-NO2-, equal to 4.5 mu g L-1 NO2--N), good inter-day precision (1.93%RSD), and excellent precision (2.67% relative error). The colorimetric sensors produced from the sheet costs only 0.04 USD each, while the DIC uses a standard smartphone for photographic detection. The method developed offers an easier and cheaper means of conducting rapid on-site determination of nitrite in water with reliable quantitative results.
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