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Wu Y, Feng J, Hu G, Zhang E, Yu HH. Colorimetric Sensors for Chemical and Biological Sensing Applications. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:s23052749. [PMID: 36904948 PMCID: PMC10007638 DOI: 10.3390/s23052749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Colorimetric sensors have been widely used to detect numerous analytes due to their cost-effectiveness, high sensitivity and specificity, and clear visibility, even with the naked eye. In recent years, the emergence of advanced nanomaterials has greatly improved the development of colorimetric sensors. This review focuses on the recent (from the years 2015 to 2022) advances in the design, fabrication, and applications of colorimetric sensors. First, the classification and sensing mechanisms of colorimetric sensors are briefly described, and the design of colorimetric sensors based on several typical nanomaterials, including graphene and its derivatives, metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, DNA nanomaterials, quantum dots, and some other materials are discussed. Then the applications, especially for the detection of metallic and non-metallic ions, proteins, small molecules, gas, virus and bacteria, and DNA/RNA are summarized. Finally, the remaining challenges and future trends in the development of colorimetric sensors are also discussed.
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- Yu Wu
- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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- School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
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- Chongqing Institute for Food and Drug Control, Chongqing 401121, China
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- Chongqing Institute for Food and Drug Control, Chongqing 401121, China
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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Yang J, Sun Q, Huang C, Qin S, Han S, Huo Z, Li Y, Sun X, Chen J. 3-Aminophenylboronic acid-mediated aggregation of gold nanoparticles for colorimetric sensing of iohexol in environmental and biological samples. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2021; 261:120004. [PMID: 34098478 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Iohexol (IHO), as one of iodinated X-ray contrast, is often used as not only a chemical marker for tracking wastewater contamination in aquatic environment, but also an ideal glomerular filtration rate marker for explorating kidney disease. To these aims, it is important to establish reliable, fast, and cheap methods to detect IHO in environmental and biological samples. This work describes for the first time the development of a selective, sensitive and reliable colorimetric sensing assay for the fast determination of IHO in environmental and biological samples based on 3-aminophenylboronic acid (3-APBA) mediated aggregation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). In this approach, 3-APBA can assemble on the AuNPs surface through electrostatic interaction between its amino groups with the negatively charged citrate stabilizer of AuNPs to form AuNP@3-APBA. Subsequently, the aggregation and visual color change of the assembled AuNP@3-APBA are induced by the covalent reaction between boronic acid ligands of 3-APBA and cis-diols of IHO. The developed assay presented a very simple operating procedure and a rapid analysis time of around 10 min. The developed assay also exhibited good selectivity and a low limit of detection (LOD) of 0.005 mM for detecting IHO. Moreover, the developed assay showed comparable accuracy and precision to the high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) method when used for the rapid determination of IHO in river water and human urine samples. The recoveries of IHO at three spiking levels were in the range of 91.5-106.3% with relative standard deviation (RSD) values below 6.39%.
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- Jiajia Yang
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, 19 Taiji Road, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, 19 Taiji Road, Handan 056038, China
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- School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, 11 Fushun Road, Qingdao 266033, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, 19 Taiji Road, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, 19 Taiji Road, Handan 056038, China
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- Second Department of Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University of Engineering, 81 Congtai Road, Handan 056002, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Lishui University, 1 Xueyuan Road, Lishui 323000, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China
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Bulbul AAM, Jibon RH, Biswas S, Pasha ST, Sayeed MA. Photonic crystal fiber-based blood components detection in THz regime: Design and simulation. SENSORS INTERNATIONAL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sintl.2021.100081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Aptamer-Based Colorimetric Probe for trans-Zeatin Detection Using Unmodified Gold Nanoparticle. Int J Anal Chem 2020; 2020:8853451. [PMID: 33178280 PMCID: PMC7609143 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8853451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Trans-Zeatin is the major active phytohormone in immature corn kernels. Herein, a highly sensitive, good selective and simple aptamer-based colorimetric method for the detection of trans-zeatin was constructed. The selected aptamer sequence binds with trans-zeatin and induces a duplex-to-aptamer structure switching. The gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) solution is stable with high-concentration salt, which is protected by red complementary DNA. In the absence of trans-zeatin, the color of AuNPs changed from red to blue because aptamer DNA and complementary DNA form double-stranded DNA. Thus, the ratio of absorbance intensities (A522/A650) of AuNPs is changed with the concentration of trans-zeatin. The color change could be observed by the naked eye. The linear range of this method covers a large variation of trans-zeatin concentration from 0.05 to 0.75 μM. The detection limit is 0.037 μM. Moreover, this method was applied successfully to detect trans-zeatin in real plant samples.
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Sengan M, Kamlekar RK, Veerappan A. Highly selective rapid colorimetric sensing of Pb 2+ ion in water samples and paint based on metal induced aggregation of N-decanoyltromethamine capped gold nanoparticles. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 239:118485. [PMID: 32450540 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Lead is highly toxic. The detection of lead in the environmental bodies is difficult, because it is colourless and odourless. Herein, we report the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using the interdigitized vesicles formed by N-decanoyltromethamine (NDTM). AuNPs stabilized by NDTM was pink in colour with spherical shape and the size is 29 ± 7 nm. The optical property of the NDTM-AuNPs was explored for the first time to detect toxic chemical, Pb2+. The addition of toxic metal ion Pb2+ to NDTM-AuNPs rapidly (< 1 min) alters the colour from pink to violet due to aggregation, which was confirmed by particle size analyser and TEM. The aggregation induced colour changes were realized via broad spectra in UV-Vis spectroscopy. NDTM-AuNPs showed a selective and sensitive spectrophotometric signal with Pb2+ when compared with other metal ions. The colorimetric change as a function of Pb2+ concentration gave a linear response in the range of 0-30 μM (R2 = 0.9942). The detection limit was found at 10 μM by naked eye and 0.35 μM by spectrophotometry. The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of Pb2+ ions in tap water and sewage water. Moreover, as a proof of concept, the NDTM-AuNPs sensor system was applied for the detection of lead in commercial paints. The results of the quantitative estimation of lead in paints by NDTM-AuNPs colorimetric sensor were as good as the standard method, atomic absorption spectroscopy.
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- Megarajan Sengan
- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur 613 401, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu 632014, India
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur 613 401, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Shahbazi N, Zare-Dorabei R. A Facile Colorimetric and Spectrophotometric Method for Sensitive Determination of Metformin in Human Serum Based on Citrate-Capped Gold Nanoparticles: Central Composite Design Optimization. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:17519-17526. [PMID: 31656924 PMCID: PMC6812131 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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For the determination of Metformin in human serum, a facile colorimetric and spectrophotometric sensor was designed based on citrate-capped gold nanoparticles (citrate-GNPs). In this probe, the addition of Metformin to GNP solution generates a naked-eye color change resulting from the aggregation of GNPs. Study of this color conversion and quantity analysis of analyte is operated by spectrophotometric instruments. The three factors pH, time, and GNP ratio were selected to examine their effects on sensing results and their values optimization. The optimization of parameters was done by means of central composite design and one-at-a-time methods. The sensing results proved the highly selective and sensitive performance of the sensor for Metformin in a linear range of 6.25-133.3 ppm with a detection limit of 1.79 ppm. The relative standard deviation (RSD) of the reported method is 2.53%.
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- Neda Shahbazi
- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry
& Micro and Nano Extraction, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16844, Iran
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- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry
& Micro and Nano Extraction, Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran 16844, Iran
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Shahbazi N, Zare‐Dorabei R. Probe for sensitive direct determination of sulphide ions based on gold nanoparticles. IET Nanobiotechnol 2018; 12:1140-1143. [DOI: 10.1049/iet-nbt.2018.5153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Neda Shahbazi
- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry & Micro and Nano ExtractionDepartment of ChemistryIran University of Science and TechnologyTehran 16846‐13114Iran
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- Research Laboratory of Spectrometry & Micro and Nano ExtractionDepartment of ChemistryIran University of Science and TechnologyTehran 16846‐13114Iran
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Preety, Chauhan N, Sharma S, Hooda V. Improved protein determination assays obtained after substitution of copper sulfate by copper oxide nanoparticles. Anal Biochem 2018; 547:19-25. [PMID: 29452104 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2018.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 01/28/2018] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Copper oxide nanoparticles (nano CuO) provide Cu2+ ions which can be easily harnessed for protein determination as an alternative to the use of copper sulfate (CuSO4). In the present work, nano CuO of size <25 nm were substituted for CuSO4 in two of the well-known protein assays viz. Lowry method and bicinchoninic acid (BCA) method. Use of nano CuO in the Lowry's assay had no effect on the assay time (30 min) but significantly lowered the limit of detection (LOD) from 0.01 to 0.001 μg/ml, while the BCA method when performed using nano CuO resulted in notable reduction of not only the assay time from 30 to 20 min but also the LOD from 0.1 to 0.001 μg/ml. Nano CuO based protein determination in the human serum and urd bean seeds extract produced reliable, reproducible and consistent results. Nano CuO also alleviated the inhibition of both the methods by common interfering substances such as ammonium sulfate, glucose, EDTA, SDS, Triton X-100, dithiothreitol and 2-mercaptoethanol. Hence, successful modification and improvement of Lowry and BCA methods by substitution of CuSO4 with nano CuO for protein determination has been demonstrated.
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- Preety
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001, India
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- Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida 201313, India
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001, India
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001, India.
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Martínez Á, Scrimin P. Gold nanoparticles crosslinking by peptides and amino acids: A tool for the colorimetric identification of amino acids. Biopolymers 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.23111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Álvaro Martínez
- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Padova, via Marzolo, 1; Padova 35131 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences; University of Padova, via Marzolo, 1; Padova 35131 Italy
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