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Liu DM, Dong C. Gold nanoparticles as colorimetric probes in food analysis: Progress and challenges. Food Chem 2023; 429:136887. [PMID: 37478597 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.136887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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The rapid, sensitive and reliable food safety control is urgently needed due to the harmful effects of the food contaminants on human health. Colorimetric approach has exhibited promising potential for the detection of food contaminants due to their easy preparation, rapid detection, high sensitivity, and naked-eye sensing. In recent years, AuNPs-based colorimetric probes have been extensively explored for food analysis. The present article reviews the development of AuNPs-based colorimetric probes for colorimetric sensing and their applications in food analysis. It generally summarizes the properties of AuNPs and introduces the preparation and functionalization methods of AuNPs. An overview of the colorimetric sensing mechanisms of AuNPs-based probes and their applications in analysis of food contaminants are also provided. Although AuNPs-based colorimetric probes show many advantages in detection of food contaminants, challenges remain in terms of complexity of food matrices, multiple analytes detection in a single go, and testing conditions interference.
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- Dong-Mei Liu
- Key Lab for Special Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center for High-efficiency Display and Lighting Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Nano Functional Materials and Applications, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004 PR China.
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Dandu SS, Joshi DJ, Park TJ, Kailasa SK. Functionalization of Gold Nanostars with Melamine for Colorimetric Detection of Uric Acid. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2023; 77:360-370. [PMID: 36653320 DOI: 10.1177/00037028231154935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Gold nanostars (AuNSs) are synthesized using a seed-mediated growth method. The synthesized AuNSs solution is stable and shows a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) band in the visible range, which is confirmed using ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. Furthermore, the as-synthesized AuNSs were functionalized with melamine and used as a sensor for the colorimetric detection of uric acid (UA). The detection mechanism could be assessed through various analytical techniques such as UV-Vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), zeta potential, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and transmission electron microscopic techniques. These methods exhibited a good linear regression between the absorption ratio of LSPR band of melamine-AuNSs and the concentration of UA (0-120 µM), with the detection limit of 8.50 nm. As a result, UA was quantitatively detected in biofluids by using melamine-AuNSs as a colorimetric sensor, revealing melamine-AuNSs-based colorimetric approach which could be used as a simple platform for UA assay in biofluids.
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- Sai Snigdha Dandu
- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Research Institute of Chem-Bio Diagnostic Technology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India
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Wang L, An X, Xiao X, Li N, Xie D, Lai F, Zhang Q. Treatment of thiocyanate-containing wastewater: a critical review of thiocyanate destruction in industrial effluents. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 39:35. [PMID: 36469179 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-022-03481-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Thiocyanate is a common pollutant in gold mine, textile, printing, dyeing, coking and other industries. Therefore, thiocyanate in industrial wastewater is an urgent problem to be solved. This paper reviews the chemical properties, applications, sources and toxicity of thiocyanate, as well as the various treatment methods for thiocyanate in wastewater and their advantages and disadvantages. It is emphasized that biological systems, ranging from laboratory to full-scale, are able to successfully remove thiocyanate from factories. Thiocyanate-degrading microorganisms degrade thiocyanate in autotrophic manner for energy, while other biodegrading microorganisms use thiocyanate as a carbon or nitrogen source, and the biochemical pathways and enzymes involved in thiocyanate metabolism by different bacteria are discussed in detail. In the future, degradation mechanisms should be investigated at the molecular level, with further research aiming to improve the biochemical understanding of thiocyanate metabolism and scaling up thiocyanate degradation technologies from the laboratory to a full-scale.
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- Liuwei Wang
- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China
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- College of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, People's Republic of China.
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Zhang A, Liu Q, Huang Z, Zhang Q, Wang R, Cui D. Electrochemical Cytosensor Based on a Gold Nanostar-Decorated Graphene Oxide Platform for Gastric Cancer Cell Detection. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:s22072783. [PMID: 35408396 PMCID: PMC9003065 DOI: 10.3390/s22072783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Effectively capturing and sensitively detecting cancer cells are critical to clinical diagnosis and cancer therapy. In this work, we prepared gold nanostar-decorated graphene oxide (GO-AuNSs) nanocomposites using a ultraviolet (UV)-induced strategy, and then modified them with a layer of bio-complex rBSA-FA (coupled reduced bovine serum albumin with folic acid) to generate GO-AuNSs@rBSA-FA nanocomposites. Herein, the application of GO and AuNSs not only strengthened the conductivity of the sensing platform but also guaranteed nanocomposites with biocompatible performance. Moreover, the adopted rBSA-FA layer could effectively enhance the stability and specificity towards gastric cancer cells (MGC-803). According to a systemic construction procedure, a novel electrochemical cytosensor based on GO-AuNSs@rBSA-FA was fabricated for MGC-803 cell detection. With the assistance of cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV), the cytosensor reached a detection limit of 100 cell/mL in a wide linear range of 3 × 102~7 × 106 cell/mL towards MGC-803 cells. The good electrochemical characteristics for the cancer cell analysis indicate a promising prospect of this electrochemical cytosensor in clinical cancer diagnosis.
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- Amin Zhang
- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD, Shanghai 200240, China; (A.Z.); (Q.L.); orange-.- (Z.H.); (Q.Z.); (R.W.)
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, 28 Jiangchuan Easternroad, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD, Shanghai 200240, China; (A.Z.); (Q.L.); orange-.- (Z.H.); (Q.Z.); (R.W.)
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, 28 Jiangchuan Easternroad, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD, Shanghai 200240, China; (A.Z.); (Q.L.); orange-.- (Z.H.); (Q.Z.); (R.W.)
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, 28 Jiangchuan Easternroad, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD, Shanghai 200240, China; (A.Z.); (Q.L.); orange-.- (Z.H.); (Q.Z.); (R.W.)
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, 28 Jiangchuan Easternroad, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD, Shanghai 200240, China; (A.Z.); (Q.L.); orange-.- (Z.H.); (Q.Z.); (R.W.)
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, 28 Jiangchuan Easternroad, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment Instrument, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan RD, Shanghai 200240, China; (A.Z.); (Q.L.); orange-.- (Z.H.); (Q.Z.); (R.W.)
- National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology, 28 Jiangchuan Easternroad, Shanghai 200241, China
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Zinc phthalocyanine anchored magnetite particles: Efficient platform for sensing of thiocyanate. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Hua Z, Yu T, Liu D, Xianyu Y. Recent advances in gold nanoparticles-based biosensors for food safety detection. Biosens Bioelectron 2021; 179:113076. [PMID: 33601132 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2021.113076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Food safety issue remains a challenge worldwide. Common substances in food can pose a great threat to human health including but not limited to food borne-pathogens, heavy metals, mycotoxins, pesticides, herbicides, veterinary drugs, allergens and illegal additives. To develop rapid, low-cost, portable and on-site detection methods of those contaminants and allergens to ensure food safety, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of versatile shapes and morphologies such as nanorods, nanoclusters, nanoflowers, nanostars, nanocages, nanobipyramids and nanowires have been employed as probes because they possess extraordinary properties that can be used to design biosensors enabling detecting various contaminants and allergens. By means of surface modification, AuNPs can directly or indirectly sense specific targets based on different mechanisms, such as hydrogen bonds, nucleic acid hybridization, aptamer-target binding, antigen-antibody recognition, enzyme inhibition, and enzyme-mimicking activity. AuNPs can induce a distinct color change from red to blue when they transform from a monodispersed state to an aggregated state in liquid solution, which can be observed by naked eyes. If Raman molecules are functionalized on AuNPs, their aggregation will alter the interparticle distance and induce the surface-enhanced Raman scattering that can be employed for highly sensitive detection. Ultra-small AuNPs such as Au nanoclusters also feature in fluorescence that enable a fluorescent readout. The formats of AuNPs for food safety detection in real world range broadly including but not limited to films, fibers, liquid solutions, tapes, chips and lateral flow strips. In this review, recent applications of AuNPs-based biosensors for food safety detection will be discussed, mainly in the aspect of different contaminants and allergens encountered in food samples.
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- Zheng Hua
- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China; Fuli Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China; Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China; Fuli Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China; Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, Zhejiang, China.
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Askari F, Rahdar A, Dashti M, Trant JF. Detecting Mercury (II) and Thiocyanate Using "Turn-on" Fluorescence of Graphene Quantum Dots. J Fluoresc 2020; 30:1181-1187. [PMID: 32691262 DOI: 10.1007/s10895-020-02586-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In this work, 1.8 nm graphene quantum dots (GQDs), exhibiting bright blue fluorescence, were prepared using a bottom-up synthesis from citric acid. The fluorescence of the GQDs could be almost completely quenched (about 96%) by adding Hg2+. Quenching was far less efficient with other similar heavy metals, Tl+, Pb2+ and Bi3+. Fluorescence could be near quantitatively restored through the introduction of thiocyanate. This "turn-on" fluorescence can thus be used to detect both or either environmental and physiological contaminants mercury and thiocyanate and could prove useful for the development of simple point-of-care diagnostics in the future. Graphical Abstract.
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- Faezeh Askari
- Department of Physics, University of Zabol, P. O. Box. 98613-35856, Zabol, Iran
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- Department of Physics, University of Zabol, P. O. Box. 98613-35856, Zabol, Iran.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Canada.
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