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Bocos-Bintintan V, Ratiu IA. Hunting for Toxic Industrial Chemicals: Real-Time Detection of Carbon Disulfide Traces by Means of Ion Mobility Spectrometry. TOXICS 2020; 8:toxics8040121. [PMID: 33327618 PMCID: PMC7765148 DOI: 10.3390/toxics8040121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 12/06/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sensitive real-time detection of vapors produced by toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) represents a stringent priority nowadays. Carbon disulfide (CS2) is such a chemical, being widely used in manufacturing synthetic textile fibers and as a solvent. CS2 is simultaneously a very reactive, highly flammable, irritant, corrosive, and highly toxic compound, affecting the central nervous system, cardiovascular system, eyes, kidneys, liver, skin, and reproductive system. This study was directed towards quick detection and quantification of CS2 in air, using time-of-flight ion mobility spectrometry (IMS); photoionization detection (PID) was also used as confirmatory technique. Results obtained indicated that IMS can detect CS2 at trace levels in air. The ion mobility spectrometric response was in the negative ion mode and presented one product ion, at a reduced ion mobility (K0) of 2.25 cm2 V−1 s−1. Our study demonstrated that by using a portable, commercial IMS system (model Mini IMS, I.U.T. GmbH Berlin Germany) one can easily measure CS2 at concentrations of 0.1 ppmv (0.3 mg m−3) in the negative ion mode, which is below the lowest threshold value of 1 ppmv given for industrial hygiene. A limit of detection (LOD) of ca. 30 ppbv (0.1 mg m−3) was also estimated.
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Affiliation(s)
- Victor Bocos-Bintintan
- Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, RO-400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Correspondence: (V.B.-B.); (I.A.R.)
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- “Raluca Ripan” Institute for Research in Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, RO-400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
- Correspondence: (V.B.-B.); (I.A.R.)
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Ratiu IA, Bocos-Bintintan V, Monedeiro F, Milanowski M, Ligor T, Buszewski B. An Optimistic Vision of Future: Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections by Sensing Their Associated Volatile Organic Compounds. Crit Rev Anal Chem 2019; 50:501-512. [PMID: 31514505 DOI: 10.1080/10408347.2019.1663147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Simple tests using sniff analysis that have the ability of diagnosing and rapidly distinguishing between infections due to different bacteria are urgently required by medical community worldwide. Professionals interested in this topic wish for these tests to be simultaneously cheap, fast, easily applicable, non-invasive, robust, reliable, and sensitive. Current analytical instrumentation has already the ability for performing real time (minutes or a few dozens of minutes) analysis of volatile bacterial biomarkers (the VOCs emitted by bacteria). Although many articles are available, a review displaying an objective evaluation of the current status in the field is still needed. This review tries to present an overview regarding the bacterial biomarkers released from in vitro cultivation of various bacterial strains and also from different biological matrices investigated, over the last 10 years. We have described results of relevant studies, which used modern analytical techniques to evaluate specific biomarker profiles associated with bacterial infections. Our purpose was to present a comprehensive view of available possibilities for detection of emitted bacterial VOCs from different matrices. We intend that this review to be of general interest for both medical doctors and for all researchers preoccupied with bacterial infectious diseases and their rapid diagnosis using analytical instrumentation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ileana-Andreea Ratiu
- Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Philosophy, Science and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, CEP, Brazil
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.,Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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Sensors' array of aspiration ion mobility spectrometer as a tool for bacteria discrimination. Talanta 2019; 206:120233. [PMID: 31514847 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2019.120233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2019] [Revised: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The possibility of achieving bacterial discrimination using a miniaturized aspiration ion mobility spectrometer model ChemPro-100i (Environics Oy) has been tested by interrogating the headspace air samples above in vitro bacterial cultures of three species - Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus, respectively. The ChemPro-100i highly integrated seven sensor array, composed of one a-IMS cell, three MOS (metal oxide sensors), one FET (field effect transistor) sensor and two SC (semiconductor) sensors, provided enough analytical information to discriminate between the three bacterial species. Statistical data processing using either principal component analysis (PCA) or partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was accomplished. We concluded that although the data from the aspiration-type ion mobility sensor, with its 16 ion detectors, is absolutely sufficient to discriminate between various bacteria using their volatile compounds' chemical profile, the other six sensors deliver additional, valuable information.
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Ratiu IA, Bocos-Bintintan V, Patrut A, Moll VH, Turner M, Thomas CLP. Discrimination of bacteria by rapid sensing their metabolic volatiles using an aspiration-type ion mobility spectrometer (a-IMS) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry GC-MS. Anal Chim Acta 2017; 982:209-217. [PMID: 28734362 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2017.06.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 06/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The objective of our study was to investigate whether one may quickly and reliably discriminate different microorganism strains by direct monitoring of the headspace atmosphere above their cultures. Headspace samples above a series of in vitro bacterial cultures were directly interrogated using an aspiration type ion mobility spectrometer (a-IMS), which produced distinct profiles ("fingerprints") of ion currents generated simultaneously by the detectors present inside the ion mobility cell. Data processing and analysis using principal component analysis showed net differences in the responses produced by volatiles emitted by various bacterial strains. Fingerprint assignments were conferred on the basis of product ion mobilities; ions of differing size and mass were deflected in a different degree upon their introduction of a transverse electric field, impacting finally on a series of capacitors (denominated as detectors, or channels) placed in a manner analogous to sensor arrays. Three microorganism strains were investigated - Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus; all strains possess a relatively low pathogenic character. Samples of air with a 5 cm3 volume from the headspace above the bacterial cultures in agar growth medium were collected using a gas-tight chromatographic syringe and injected inside the closed-loop pneumatic circuit of the breadboard a-IMS instrument model ChemPro-100i (Environics Oy, Finland), at a distance of about 1 cm from the ionization source. The resulting chemical fingerprints were produced within two seconds from the moment of injection. The sampling protocol involved to taking three replicate samples from each of 10 different cultures for a specific strain, during a total period of 72 h after the initial incubation - at 24, 48 and 72 h, respectively. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to discriminate between the IMS fingerprints. PCA was found to successfully discriminate between bacteria at three levels in the experimental campaign: 1) between blank samples from growth medium and samples from bacterial cultures, 2) between samples from different bacterial strains, and 3) between time evolutions of headspace samples from the same bacterial strain over the 3-day sampling period. Consistent classification between growth medium samples and growth medium inoculated with bacteria was observed in both positive and negative detection/ionization modes. In parallel, headspace air samples of 1 dm3 were collected from each bacterial culture and loaded onto Tenax™-Carbograph desorption tubes, using a custom built sampling unit based on a portable sampling pump. One sample was taken for each of 10 different cultures of a strain, at 24, 48 and 72 h after the initial incubation. These adsorption tubes were subsequently analyzed using thermal desorption - gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS). This second dataset was intended to produce a qualitative analysis of the volatiles present in the headspace above the bacterial cultures.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ileana Andreea Ratiu
- Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, RO-400294, Romania; Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 4 Wileńska Str., 87-100 Torun, Poland.
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- Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, RO-400294, Romania
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Str. Arany Janos 11, Cluj-Napoca, RO-400028, Romania
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- Centre for Analytical Science, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Ashley Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Analytical Science, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Ashley Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Analytical Science, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Ashley Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, United Kingdom
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Waraksa E, Perycz U, Namieśnik J, Sillanpää M, Dymerski T, Wójtowicz M, Puton J. Dopants and gas modifiers in ion mobility spectrometry. Trends Analyt Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2016.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Moll V, Bocoş-Binţinţan V, Raţiu IA, Ruszkiewicz D, Thomas CLP. Control of dopants/modifiers in differential mobility spectrometry using a piezoelectric injector. Analyst 2012; 137:1458-65. [PMID: 22318171 DOI: 10.1039/c2an16109e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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A piezoelectric injector has been interfaced to a differential mobility spectrometer to enable fast and reversible control of dopant/transport-gas modifier levels within the reaction region of the instrument. Operating at 1 Hz with optimised bipolar waveforms for the piezoelectric injector and gas flows within the injector, steady-state 2-butanol mass fluxes of 21 to 1230 ng min(-1) and 1-bromohexane mass fluxes of 149 to 2644 ng min(-1) were delivered to the differential mobility cell. Control of split-flow and transport-gas flow rates enabled rapid and flexible control of the dopant concentrations. The system was consistently reproducible with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 7.9% at every mass- flux level studied. Stable responses were achieved between 3 to 5 s following a change in the control levels and no significant hysteresis effects were observed. In the positive mode it was possible to control the extent of formation protonated monomer and proton bound cluster ions, tentatively assigned to{C(4)H(9)OH(H(2)O)(n)H}(+) and {(C(4)H(9)OH)(2)(H(2)O)(n)H}(+) and similar control was possible in the negative mode where the concentration relationship for the formation of bromide clusters indicated the presence of multiple ionisation mechanisms. A dopant formulation for the simultaneous control of ions in both the positive and negative modes was demonstrated by the injection of a 50%/50% v/v solution of 2-butanol/1-bromohexane with mass fluxes of 2-butanol in the mixture of between 11 and 1161 ng min(-1) and between 13 and 1325 ng min(-1) for 1-bromohexane.
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- Victor Moll
- Centre for Analytical Science, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
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