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Enhancing the sensitivity of a surface plasmon resonance-based optical sensor for zinc ion detection by the modification of a gold thin film

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors as novel optical sensors for the detection of a variety of analytes have been receiving increasing attention and their sensitivity has become the research hotspot recently. In this study, the sensitivity of an SPR optical sensor was enhanced by modifying a gol...

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Autores principales: Daniyal, Wan Mohd Ebtisyam Mustaqim Mohd, Fen, Yap Wing, Anas, Nur Ain Asyiqin, Omar, Nur Alia Sheh, Ramdzan, Nur Syahira Md, Nakajima, Hideki, Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9076571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35541586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9ra07368j
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Sumario:Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors as novel optical sensors for the detection of a variety of analytes have been receiving increasing attention and their sensitivity has become the research hotspot recently. In this study, the sensitivity of an SPR optical sensor was enhanced by modifying a gold thin film with a nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC)-based material for zinc ion (Zn(2+)) detection that exists in the environment due to industrial processing. By replacing the gold thin film with a novel modified-gold thin film, Zn(2+) can be detected from the range of 0 to 10 ppm using SPR. It is believed that the Zn(2+) may interact with the negative charge molecules that exist on the modified-gold thin film, and this was confirmed via X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Moreover, this modified-gold-SPR has a high sensitivity of 1.892° ppm(−1) up to 0.1 ppm with an enhanced detection of Zn(2+) as low as 0.01 ppm. The SPR results also followed the Langmuir isotherm model with a binding affinity of 1.927 × 10(3) M(−1), which further confirmed the sensitivity of the SPR sensor. In addition, using the modified-gold thin film, SPR has a higher affinity towards Zn(2+) compared to other metal ions, i.e. Ni(2+), Fe(2+), Cr(2+), Mn(2+), and Co(2+).