Abstract
Dissolved oxygen (DO) content is an essential indicator for evaluating the quality of the water body and the main parameter for water quality monitoring. The development of high-precision DO detection methods is of great significance. This paper reports an integrated optofluidic device for the high precision measurement of dissolved oxygen based on the characteristics of silver nanoprisms. Metal nanoparticles, especially silver nanoprisms, are extremely sensitive to their surroundings. In glucose and glucose oxidase systems, dissolved oxygen will be transformed into H2O2, which affects the oxidation and erosion process of nanoprisms, then influences the optical properties of nanoparticles. By detecting the shift in the plasma resonance peak of the silver nanoparticles, the dissolved oxygen (DO) content can be determined accurately. Great reconfigurability is one of the most significant advantages of the optofluidic device. By simply adjusting the flow rate ratio between the silver nanoprisms flow and the water sample flow, real-time continuous adjustment of the detection ranges of DO from 0 to 16 mg/L can be realized dynamically. The detection limit of this device is as low as 0.11 µM (3.52 µg/L) for DO measurement. Thus, the present optofluidic system has a wide range of potential applications in fields of biomedical analyses and water sensing.
Highlights
Dissolved oxygen provides the necessary biochemical environment for the survival of aquatic organisms and is an indispensable material for aquatic life activities [1,2]
This paper reports an integrated optofluidic device for the high precision measurement of dissolved oxygen based on the characteristics of silver nanoprisms
In the presence of glucose (GO) and glucose oxidase (GOD), dissolved oxygen in the water sample is converted to H2O2 with concentration directly related to Dissolved oxygen (DO) content
Summary
Dissolved oxygen provides the necessary biochemical environment for the survival of aquatic organisms and is an indispensable material for aquatic life activities [1,2]. We designed an integrated optofluidic chip combining nanoparticle synthesis and spectrum detection to realize the precision measurement of dissolved oxygen. This optofluidic DO detector possesses advantages such as higher measurement precision (detection limit less than 3.52 μg/L), less sample and reagents consumption (level of microliter), small size, low cost, parallel processing of samples, adjustable detection range (0–16 mg/L), and easy integration. This method can overcome the deficiencies of the traditional equipment in practical applications and has an important application prospect in the field of water environment monitoring
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