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Wang Y, Zhang C, Yu R, Wu Z, Wang Y, Wang W, Lai Y. Robust and sensitive determination of nitrites in pickled food by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2024; 309:123794. [PMID: 38154308 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
Abstract
Nitrites are ubiquitous in food and pose a serious threat to human health. Therefore, the rapid and accurate determination of nitrite ion concentration in food is a prerequisite for eliminating the damage of nitrites. In this study, a robust, rapid, and sensitive method is proposed for nitrite detection in pickled food, in which Au@Ag nanoparticles are used as a reliable surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate taking advantage of the high enhancement effect of silver and the good stability of gold. Nitrites were anchored to the surface of the SERS substrate by bridging with 4-aminophenylthiophenol (PATP). With Raman scattering cross-section amplification and internal calibration by PATP, a satisfactory linear relationship (R2 = 0.987) was established for nitrite detection in the concentration range of 5.00-100.00 μM, and the limit of detection (LOD) was 0.17 μM. This SERS-based method demonstrated high selectivity, good precision (RSD < 7.00 %), and satisfying recovery rates (101.42-107.35 %) in real samples, thus improving the determination method for nitrites. Therefore, this method has application potential in food safety and supervision.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yufei Wang
- Institute of Materia Medical, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Materia Medical, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Materia Medical, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Materia Medical, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Materia Medical, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, Shandong, China
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- School of Clinical and Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, China.
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- School of Public Health, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250117, China.
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Liang F, Huang Y, Miao J, Lai K. A simple and efficient alginate hydrogel combined with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for quantitative analysis of sodium nitrite in meat products. Analyst 2024; 149:1518-1526. [PMID: 38265063 DOI: 10.1039/d3an01771k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
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Sodium nitrite is a commonly used preservative and color protectant in the food industry. Conventional analytical methods are highly susceptible to food matrix interference, time-consuming and costly. In this study, the ion cross-linking method was employed to prepare alginate hydrogel substrates, and phenosafranin was chosen as a single-molecule probe to analyze sodium nitrite. Our investigation centered on elucidating the effects of alginate and cross-linking ion concentrations on Raman signal characteristics. The optimal Raman response was observed in the precursor solution with 1% sodium alginate and 0.1 mol L-1 cross-linking ions. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of the feature peaks from the three substrate batches ranged from 1.22% to 16.30%, attesting the robustness and consistency of the substrates. The signal reduction of the substrates after a four-week storage period remained below 10%, indicating that the substrates had good reproducibility and stability. The limits of detection (LODs) for sodium nitrite in extracts from cured meat, luncheon meat, and sliced ham were determined to range from 3.75 mg kg-1 to 8.11 mg kg-1, with low interference from the food matrix. The support vector machine algorithm was utilized to train and predict the data, which proved to be more accurate (98.6%-99.8% recovery) than the traditional linear regression model (81.9%-112.7% recovery) in predicting the spiked samples. The application of hydrogel-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates for nitrite detection in food, combined with machine learning for regression prediction in data processing, collectively augmented the potential of SERS technology in the field of food analysis.
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- Fengnian Liang
- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
- Engineering Research Center of Food Thermal - Processing Technology, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- School of Food Science and Bioengineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Hunan, 410076, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
- Engineering Research Center of Food Thermal - Processing Technology, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
- Engineering Research Center of Food Thermal - Processing Technology, Shanghai, 201306, China
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Wei S, Zhao X, Zhao K, Wang M, Xu L, Zhang Y, Huang X, Chen Y. Flexible, foldable and transparent SERS film with high sensitivity and signal homogeneity via silver ion exchange and in-situ reduction. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2024; 306:123624. [PMID: 37948934 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2023.123624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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The adhesion between metal plasma and substrate was the key of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technology. The preparation of ideal SERS substrate with multiple advantages such as high sensitivity and good signal reproducibility was still the focus of research. A flexible foldable and transparent fluorinated polyimide/silver NPs (FPI@Ag) SERS film was fabricated by the ion exchange and in-situ reduction method in this work. The effects of KOH hydrolysis time, AgNO3 ion exchange time and concentration, the type and concentration of reducing agents on the SERS performance of the FPI@Ag film were systematically discussed. As a result, the hydrolysis time of KOH affected the thickness of the metallic silver layer, the concentration of AgNO3 affected the size and spacing of Ag NPs, and the Raman signal of was remarkably enhanced when borane dimethylamine complex (DMAB) was used as reducing agent. When the detection limit of 4-Aminothiophenol was as low as 1 × 10-11 mol·L-1, the obvious Raman characteristic peak still appeared. The enhancement factor (EF) was up to 9.4 × 107. The linear quantification range was achieved in the range from 10-3-10-11 mol·L-1, R2 = 0.9987. In addition, we also performed multi-cycle bending and torsion test on the FPI@Ag film, and obtained stable Raman signals. The prepared FPI@Ag film can be attached to the surface of uneven samples, which can be used for on-site Raman detection and analysis.
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- Siyu Wei
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, PR China.
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Ma P, Gong F, Zhu H, Qian Y, He L, Xia J, Cao Z. Partnered Excited-State Intermolecular Proton Transfer Fluorescence (P-ESIPT) Signaling for Nitrate Sensing and High-Resolution Cell-Imaging. Molecules 2022; 27:5164. [PMID: 36014404 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27165164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Revised: 07/24/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Nitrite (NO2−) is a common pollutant and is widely present in the environment and in human bodies. The development of a rapid and accurate method for NO2− detection is always a very important task. Herein, we synthesized a partnered excited-state intermolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) fluorophore using the “multi-component one pot” method, and used this as a probe (ESIPT-F) for sensing NO2−. ESIPT-F exhibited bimodal emission in different solvents because of the solvent-mediated ESIPT reaction. The addition of NO2− caused an obvious change in colors and tautomeric fluorescence due to the graft of NO2− into the ESIPT-F molecules. From this basis, highly sensitive and selective analysis of NO2− was developed using tautomeric emission signaling, achieving sensitive detection of NO2− in the concentration range of 0~45 mM with a detection limit of 12.5 nM. More importantly, ESIPT-F showed the ability to anchor proteins and resulted in a recognition-driven “on-off” ESIPT process, enabling it to become a powerful tool for fluorescence imaging of proteins or protein-based subcellular organelles. MTT experimental results revealed that ESIPT-F is low cytotoxic and has good membrane permeability to cells. Thus, ESIPT-F was further employed to image the tunneling nanotube in vitro HEC-1A cells, displaying high-resolution performance.
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