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Inkjet-printed paper-based SERS dipsticks and swabs for trace chemical detection.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Yu, Wei Wen White, Ian M. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | We demonstrate a paper-based surface swab and lateral-flow dipstick that includes an inkjet-printed surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate for analyte detection. Due to capillary-action wicking of cellulose, the paper dipstick enables extremely simple and pump-free loading of liquid samples into the detection device, and in addition provides inherent analyte concentration within the detection volume. Furthermore, the flexible nature of the paper-based SERS device also enables it to act as a swab to collect analyte molecules directly from a large-area surface; the collected analyte molecules can then be focused into a small-volume SERS-active region by lateral-flow concentration. These capabilities are unseen in today's SERS substrates and microfluidic SERS devices. Using these novel lateral-flow paper SERS devices, we achieved detection limits as low as 95 fg of Rhodamine 6G (R6G), 413 pg of the organophosphate malathion, 9 ng of heroin, and 15 ng of cocaine. Moreover, the measurements show that the technique is quantitative and is repeatable across multiple swabs and dipsticks. The results reported here may lead to ultra-low-cost portable applications in trace chemical detection. |
| Starting Page | 2360 |
| Ending Page | 2366 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/an/c2/c2an36116g/c2an36116g.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 23001259v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1039/c2an36116g |
| DOI | 10.1039/c2an36116g |
| Journal | The Analyst |
| Volume Number | 138 |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Capillary Action Cellulose Cocaine Dipstick device Malathion Microfluidics Organophosphates Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared Swab specimen analyte |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |