Issue 17, 2024

Corrective protocol to predict interference free sensor response for paper-based solution sampling coupled with heavy metal sensitive ion-selective electrodes

Abstract

Paper-based microfluidics combined with potentiometric measurement has emerged as an attractive approach for detecting various chemical ionic moieties. Detection of heavy metal ions, using paper substrates as solution sampling and delivery systems remains challenging despite efforts to introduce several physico-chemical paper substrate modifications to stop adsorption of ions onto the paper substrates. This study quantitatively investigates the adsorption of heavy metal ions on the paper substrates during paper-based potentiometric measurements and explains the super-Nernstian response of potentiometric sensors through local depletion of heavy metal ions from the solution. Consequently, based on the investigated ion adsorption, a corrective potential protocol was established for the electrodes coupled with paper-based solution sampling by predicting interference free sensor response from paper-based measurement. Furthermore, the ion adsorption was also recorded for mixed metal ion solutions to understand competitive primary/interfering ions adsorption onto the paper substrates and establish corrective measures to predict interference free sensor response. In this method, no modifications of the paper substrates are necessary before actual potentiometric measurements. The proposed corrective protocol allows prediction of sensor response based on the paper-based solution sampling potentiometric measurement, providing a simple methodological approach based on correction of potential readout of the potentiometric sensor, thus completely resigning from the need of modifying paper substrate for measurements of heavy metal ions.

Graphical abstract: Corrective protocol to predict interference free sensor response for paper-based solution sampling coupled with heavy metal sensitive ion-selective electrodes

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Jun 2024
Accepted
05 Jul 2024
First published
15 Jul 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Analyst, 2024,149, 4351-4362

Corrective protocol to predict interference free sensor response for paper-based solution sampling coupled with heavy metal sensitive ion-selective electrodes

M. Yang, R. Silva, K. Zhao, R. Ding, J. L. C. Foo, L. Ge and G. Lisak, Analyst, 2024, 149, 4351 DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00841C

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