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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 85, Issue 16, Pages 7834-7841Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac401416w
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
- National Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC)
- [STPSC 357011-07]
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Pesticide residue is of concern as an environmental pollutant when present at medium to high concentrations. Such residue was quantified in both vegetable and soil samples by an enzyme inhibition technique. The multistep reactions were integrated into centrifugal microfluidic devices allowing automated simultaneous analysis of several samples or of replicates. The small sample size inherent to microfluidic devices allowed for less reagent to be used including less of the expensive enzyme which is key to this method. Liquid-solid magnetically actuated extraction, filtration, sedimentation, and detection were all integrated on the same device. Several parameters were optimized including the concentration of enzyme, substrate, chromatic agent, and reaction tune. In this environmental application of centrifugal microfluidics, the percent inhibition of enzyme activity is logarithmically proportional to the demonstration pesticide concentration (in this case carbofuran). This meant that as the pesticide concentration increased in the samples, the reaction was more inhibited and the final product absorbed less light at 525 nm. Two versions of the centrifugal microfluidic devices were made. One version was designed for the analysis of vegetable samples (cabbage) and the other for the analysis of soil samples. Each version provided results that were statistically similar to the conventional benchtop method with a carbofuran limit of detection of 0.1 ppm or 0.1 mu g g(-1) (5 ng absolute limit of detection).
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