Journal
SENSORS
Volume 19, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s19102340
Keywords
distance-based paper device; paper-based headspace extraction; cyanide
Funding
- Thailand Research Fund
- National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)
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We report for the first time a distance-based paper device based on gold/silver core shell nanoparticles (Au@Ag NPs) for a simple, inexpensive, instrument-free, and portable determination of cyanide by the naked eye. Au@Ag NPs immobilized on a paper channel were etched by cyanide ions so that a yellow color band length of Au@Ag NPs is proportional to a decrease in the cyanide concentration. Quantification is achieved by measuring color length, thus eliminating the need to differentiate hues and intensities by the user, and the processing data of each imaging device. Moreover, the paper-based headspace extraction was combined with the distance-based paper device to improve the sensitivity. The enrichment factor was found to be 30-fold and the linearity was found in the range 0.05-1 mg L-1. The naked eye detection limit was 10 g L-1 where the World Health Organization (WHO) have regulated the maximum level of cyanide in drinking water as 70 g L-1. Our proposed device also showed no interference from common cations and anions presenting in seawater and waste water including thiocyanate, chloride. Finally, our device has been successfully applied to determine cyanide ions in seawater, drinking water, tap water and wastewater providing satisfactory precision and accuracy.
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