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Gao W, Fan W, Wang D, Sun J, Li Y, Tang C, Fan M. Assessing fresh water acute toxicity with Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS). Talanta 2024; 267:125163. [PMID: 37690416 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.125163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 08/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
It's well known that the toxicity of chemicals in the environment depends not only their concentrations, but more importantly, their bio-availability. Thus, the acute toxicity test of environmental water samples is of great importance in water quality evaluation. In this work, water acute toxicity was determined via SERS approach for the first time based on the reaction between Escherichia coli (E. coli) and p-benzoquinone (BQ). The E. coli was used as the subject of toxicity assay. Under normal conditions, the BQ molecules can be transformed into Hydroquinone (HQ) by the E. coli bacteria; subsequently, the BQ will continue to react with the resulting HQ to form Quinone hydroquinone (QHQ). This process could be impaired in the presence of many toxic chemicals. Bromide modified Ag NPs was then introduced for the highly sensitive SERS detection of the product (HQ and QHQ). Several key factors that may affect water acute toxicity evaluation have been explored, which include the initial BQ and E. coli concentration, the incubation time with BQ, and the sodium chloride concentration. Later, the established system was applied for the toxicity evaluation of Cu2+. It was found that the IC50 value of Cu2+ was 0.94 mg/L, which is superior compared with literature report. This study provides a promising SERS method for assessing acute toxicity in water bodies with high sensitivity and short detection time.
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- Weixing Gao
- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031, China
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- School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang, Henan, 473061, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031, China
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- School of Emergency Management, Xihua University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610039, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031, China
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- Chengdu Development Center of Science and Technology, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610200, China
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- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031, China.
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Application study of RGB color extraction in water toxicity detection. Bioelectrochemistry 2022; 149:108270. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2022.108270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Qutob M, Hussein MA, Alamry KA, Rafatullah M. A review on the degradation of acetaminophen by advanced oxidation process: pathway, by-products, biotoxicity, and density functional theory calculation. RSC Adv 2022; 12:18373-18396. [PMID: 35799916 PMCID: PMC9214717 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra02469a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Water scarcity and the accumulation of recalcitrance compounds into the environment are the main reasons behind the attraction of researchers to use advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Many AOP systems have been used to treat acetaminophen (ACT) from an aqueous medium, which leads to generating different kinetics, mechanisms, and by-products. In this work, state-of-the-art studies on ACT by-products and their biotoxicity, as well as proposed degradation pathways, have been collected, organized, and summarized. In addition, the Fukui function was used for predicting the most reactive sites in the ACT molecule. The most frequently detected by-products in this review were hydroquinone, 1,4-benzoquinone, 4-aminophenol, acetamide, oxalic acid, formic acid, acetic acid, 1,2,4-trihydroxy benzene, and maleic acid. Both the experimental and prediction tests revealed that N-(3,4-dihydroxy phenyl) acetamide was mutagenic. Meanwhile, N-(2,4-dihydroxy phenyl) acetamide and malonic acid were only found to be mutagenic in the prediction test. The findings of the LC50 (96 h) test revealed that benzaldehyde is the most toxic ACT by-products and hydroquinone, N-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)formamide, 4-methylbenzene-1,2-diol, benzoquinone, 4-aminophenol, benzoic acid, 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzene, 4-nitrophenol, and 4-aminobenzene-1,2-diol considered harmful. The release of them into the environment without treatment may threaten the ecosystem. The degradation pathway based on the computational method was matched with the majority of ACT proposed pathways and with the most frequent ACT by-products. This study may contribute to enhance the degradation of ACT by AOP systems.
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- Mohammad Qutob
- Division of Environmental Technology, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia 11800 Penang Malaysia
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University P.O. Box 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University P.O. Box 80203 Jeddah 21589 Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Environmental Technology, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia 11800 Penang Malaysia
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Yu D, Wang Q, Fang Y, Kang Z, Liu L, He J, Han X, Yu H, Dong S. Study on simplified strategies for procedure of rapid detection of water toxicity. Talanta 2021; 235:122787. [PMID: 34517645 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Revised: 07/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In this work, a simplified procedure of detection of water toxicity based on Pt ultramicroelectrode (UME) and mixed microorganism cultured without sterilization was the first proposed. A stable Pt UME was successfully prepared with a special glass tube as insulation and support material, which was used as working electrode in the biosensor. The Pt UME exhibits the typical cyclic voltammogram (CV) of Pt UME with sigmoid shape and possesses good stability, enlarged current response and tunable dimension. In addition, it was an effective and simple method for toxicity biosensor using mixed microorganisms cultured in unsterilized lysogeny broth (LB) as the bioreceptor. K3[Fe(CN)6] was used as an electron mediator. Under the optimal conditions of 30 mM K3[Fe(CN)6], OD600 = 1 cell concentration, and 50 mM phosphate-buffered solution (PBS), the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values measured for Cd2+, Cu2+ and Ni2+ were 3.99 mg/L, 1.16 mg/L and 2.37 mg/L, respectively. The results indicated that the biosensor with large diameter Pt UME and mixed microorganisms cultured in unsterilized LB realized rapid and simple detection of water toxicity.
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- Dengbin Yu
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Changchun University Science and Technology, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, Jilin, PR China; School of Life Science and Technology, Changchun University Science and Technology, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, Jilin, PR China; University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, PR China.
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Yu D, Fang Y, Liu L, He J, Han X, Yu H, Dong S. Fabrication of a Novel, Cost-Effective Double-Sided Indium Tin Oxide-Based Nanoribbon Electrode and Its Application of Acute Toxicity Detection in Water. ACS Sens 2020; 5:3923-3929. [PMID: 33305577 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c01566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Microelectrode plays a crucial role in developing a rapid biosensor for detecting toxicity in water. In this study, a nanoribbon electrode (NRE) with amplified microelectrode signal was successfully prepared by electrodepositing 2-allylphenol on a double-sided indium tin oxide glass. The NRE provided a simple mean for obtaining large steady-state current response. Its advantages were discussed by contrasting the toxicity detection of 3,5-dichlorophenol (DCP) with single microelectrode, microelectrode array, and millimeter electrode as working electrodes in which potassium ferricyanide (K3[Fe(CN)6]) was adopted as a mediator, and Escherichia coli was selected as bioreceptor. At a constant potential of 450 mV, the current reached a steady state within 10 s. The biosensor was constructed using the NRE as working electrode, and its feasibility was verified by determining the toxicity of DCP. A 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 3.01 mg/L was obtained by analyzing the current responses of different concentrations of DCP within 1 h. These results exhibited that the proposed method based on the as-prepared NRE was a rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective way for toxicity detection in water.
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- Dengbin Yu
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130102, P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Wuhan University), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Changchun University Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130102, P. R. China
- School of Life Science and Technology, Changchun University Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
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