The development of a scalable, low-cost, and versatile sensor platform for the sensitive and rapid detection of heavy metal ions (HMIs) is of great interest to human health and the global ecosystem. Here we report on an all-solution method to fabricate a sensor platform based on nanostructured conductive polyaniline (PANI) in which the electrode materials were functionalized with L-Cysterine (L-Cys). And based on this platform, we realized the simultaneous detection of Pb2+ and Cd2+ with the detection limit of 11.6 nM and 10.5 nM, respectively. It proves that the proposed sensor has good performance, and broad application prospects in HMIs detection.
Diazinon is a highly efficient, highly toxic, low residual organophosphorus pesticide used widely in rice, vegetables, and corn crops. Conventional methods for diazinon detection are limited by expensive instruments and tedious sample pretreatment methods, so a new method for rapid, simple, and reliable trace pesticide residues is needed to ensure the safety of crop products. In this paper, silver nanoparticles were synthesized as active substrates using a reduction technique for SERS signal enhancement. The SERS spectra of diazinon were collected over a wide range of concentrations. The characteristic peaks at 1642 cm-1 and 1351 cm-1 were selected for quantitative analysis, and their coefficient of determination (R2) were 0.9929 and 0.9951, respectively. In addition, the molecular structure of diazinon was simulated for the first time, and the vibrational modes corresponding to the characteristic spectra of diazinon were calculated with good agreement using the density flooding theory B3LY P/6-31+G (d, p). These results indicate that the application of SERS to diazinon detection is feasible and has broad application prospects.
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) has become the most commonly utilized method for calculating the water content of porous media due to its advantages of rapidity, safety, and non-destructiveness. Nonetheless, the dielectric constant of porous media with the same gravimetric water content varies considerably due to their different porosity, so the TDR method cannot be directly used to measure the gravimetric water content. Although the traditional thermo-gravimetric method has high measurement accuracy, sampling is cumbersome and measurement is time-consuming. Therefore, it is essential to develop an accurate and effective method to calculate the gravimetric water content of porous media. Based on the dielectric measurement results, a third-order polynomial fitting equation describing the relationship between volume water content and apparent dielectric constant of quartz sand is obtained by employing the least square method. Then a TDR method, which can eliminate the influence of gap through secondary compression, is proposed to calculate the gravimetric water content of porous media. The comparative experiment with the thermo-gravimetric method demonstrates that this method has high measurement accuracy, and provides an approach for predicting the gravimetric water content, bulk density, and porosity of porous media, which can be used in field and laboratory applications.
Plasmonic core-shell nanoparticles (CSNPs) have been extensively used as SERS active-substrates because their localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) properties and thus the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activities can be regulated by changing the shell thickness. In this work, we selected Ag@MoS2 CSNP with 40 nm radius of Ag as core and varied thickness of MoS2 as shell to investigate the shell-dependent plasmonic behaviors including LSPR and SERS by using finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations. The LSPR peak of Ag@MoS2 CSNPs shows a broad red-shifting with an increasing shell thickness from 0 nm to 40 nm, giving rise to that the LSPR peak tunes from visible region (385 nm) to near infrared (NIR) region (1100 nm). The SERS activity of Ag@MoS2 CSNP, represented by the enhancement of local electrical field (EM), can also be modulated by changing the shell thickness, and the optimal enhancement factor (EF) under 633 nm laser excitation is determined to be 3.54×106 when the shell thickness is 4 nm. The wide-range LSPR tunability of Ag@MoS2 CSNP provides enormous potential for NIR SERS application and enhanced photocatalytic activity
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