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Portable Amperometric Glucose Detection based on NiS/CuS Nanorods Integrated with a Smartphone Device

  • Heyu Zhao;Kaige Qu;Haoyong Yin;Ling Wang;Yifan Zheng;Shumin Zhao;Shengji Wu
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.252-261
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    • 2023
  • Glucose detection is particularly important for clinical diagnosis and personal prevention and control. Herein, the smartphone-based amperometric glucose sensors were constructed using the NiS/CuS nanorods (NRs) as sensing electrodes. The NiS/CuS NRs were prepared through a facile hydrothermal process accompanied by the subsequent vulcanization treatment. The morphological and structural properties of NiS/CuS NRs were characterized with SEM, EDS, XRD, and XPS. Electrochemical measurements including cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy display that NiS/CuS NRs can act as highly efficient electrocatalyst for glucose detection. The NiS/CuS NRs electrodes present a wide detection range of 1-8000 µM for glucose sensing with the sensitivity of 956.38 µA·mM-1·cm-2. The detection limit was 0.35 µM (S/N=3). When employed in smartphone-based glucose sensing device, they also display a high sensitivity of 738.09 µA·mM-1·cm-2 and low detection limit of 1.67 µM. Moreover, the smartphone-based glucose sensing device also presents favorable feasibility in determination of glucose in serum samples with the recoveries ranging between 99.5 and 105.8%. The results may provide a promising viewpoint to design other new portable glucose sensors.

Some Improvements of Gamma-ray Measurement for the Determination of the Boron Content (붕소 함량결정을 위한 즉발 감마선 계측법의 개선)

  • Nak Bae Kim;Hae-Ill Bak
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.18-20
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    • 1984
  • The detection limit of boron has been lowered further in the capture gamma-ray measurement after preconcentration of boron by placing natural lithium brick in front of Ge(Li) detector. The experimental detection limit is found to be 0.30ppm, 0.18ppm, 0.045ppm and 0.090ppm for the samples of aluminum, steel, uranium dioxide and graphite, respectively. An alternate counting technique kas been also used for neglecting the error caused by the fluctuation of neutron flux during counting.

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Residue of Organophosphorus Pesticides in the Coastal Environment on the Cheju Island (제주도 연안 해양환경 중 유기린계 농약의 잔류)

  • Kim, Jeong-Ho;O, Yun-Geun;Park, Byeong-Yun
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.503-507
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    • 1999
  • To study the residue of organophosphorus pesticides in the ocean environment on the Cheju island, EPN[O-ethyl-O-4-nitrophenyl phenylphosphonothioate] and monocrotophos [Dimethyl-1-methyl-2-methyl carba-moylvinylphosphate] of organophosphorus pesticides are surveyed on coastal environment of Cheju city and Wimi in May and October 1996. The qualified limit detection of EPN and monocrotophos are 0.005ng/mL and 0.006ng/mL in the water by GC-FPD, respectively. The qualified limit detection of EPN and monocrotophos are 0.010ng/g and 0.012ng/g in the solid such as sediment and sea organism by GC-FPD, respectively. EPN and monocrotophos are not detected in seawater and sedimnet. Moreover EPN and monocrotophos are neither detected in seaweed cava (Ecklonia cava), Agar (Gelidium amansii), turban sell(Batillus cornutus) and sea urchin(Anthocidaris Crassispina). EPN, monocrotophos used in the farm on the Cheju island are not residued in the coastal environment in the Cheju island.

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Elemental Analysis of Drinking Water with ICP/AES (ICP/AES에 의한 먹는물의 무기원소 분석)

  • Park, Kye-Hun;Shin, Hyung-Seon;Han, Cheong-Hee
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.21-24
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    • 1996
  • Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrophotometer (ICP/AES) is a versatile modern instruments for the multi-element analysis, but quantitative analysis using ICP/AES with normal pneumatic nebulizer is not applicable for the measurement of elemental concentrations in water down to the drinkining water standard level except a few elements because of poor detection limits. However, the detection limit can be lowered enough to measure drinking water standard, if ultrasonic nebulizer and/or hydride vapor generator is attached. This method is tested with groundwater samples from Tajeon area. It is confirmed that the elemental concentrations in these samples are within the limit of drinking water standard for the most elements. However, uranium concentration is very high in some samples compared with the concentrations suggested by Environmental Protection Agency of U.S.A. There is no standard concentration level to this element in Korea and it should be prepared immediately.

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Simultaneous Analysis of Semi-Volatile Organic Acid Priority Pollutants in Soil (토양 중의 비휘발성 산성 유기 Priority Pollutants 동시분석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seung Seok;Park, Gyo Beom;Lee, Seong Geun
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.246-253
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    • 1994
  • The simultaneous analysis of 11 semi-volatile organic acid compound which are listed as priority pollutants by EPA, were performed by GC/MS-SIM(selected ion monitoring). Two extraction procedures, sonication extraction and Soxhlet extraction, were studied as an extraction and concentration method for priority pollutants in soil. Accurecy and precision of the methods were measured by the calculation of mean recovery, mean relative standard deviation, and method detection limit. Finally, limitations and prospects were discussed.

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A Study on the Determination of Residual Antibiotics and synthetic antibacterial agents in Meat(I) -Microbiological Assay- (식육중의 잔류 항생.항균제의 검정에 관한 연구(I) -생물학적 검정법-)

  • 류재천;송윤선;박종세;장준식;신보승언
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1993
  • 육류중에 잔류하는 항생물질 및 항균제를 검출하기 위해 본 실험에서는 3종의 균주 Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633, Micrococcus luteus ATCC 9341, BAcillus cereus var. mycoides ATCC 11778을 사용하여 실험하였다. 시료의 clean-up은 항생·항균제의 물리화학적 성질을 고려하여 우선 McIlvaine buffer를 가하여 homogenize하고 hexane으로 defatting 시킨 후, chloroform으로 추출한 액과 Sep-Pak C18과 Bakerbond SPE carboxylic acid column에 흡착시킨 후 추출한 액을 각각 시험용액 A, B, C,로 하였다. 각 test solution을 paper disk를 사용하여 함균 배지에 올려놓고 overnight culture 후 inhibition pattern을 통해 여러 종류의 항생·항균제를 계통적으로 검출하였다. 본 실험에서 macrolide계와 tetracycline계 등은 0.1ppm 이하의 detection limit을 보였으며, penicillinrP는 0.001ppm이하의 높은 detection limit을 나타내므로서 시료중에 잔류하는 극미량까지도 검출할 수 있었다. 본 방법은 식육중의 잔류 항생·항균제를 동시에 간단하게 계통적으로 분류하는데 있어 좋은 방법이라고 생각되며 항생·항균제의 체계적인 1차 screening 수단으로서 유용한 방법이라 사료된다.

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Capillary Electrophoresis Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide by Using Titanium Ion and 4-(2-thiazolylazo)resorcinol

  • Vu Phuong, Dong;Yoo, Hoon
    • International Journal of Oral Biology
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.197-201
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    • 2017
  • A novel method for the detection of hydrogen peroxide in aqueous solution was developed via reaction between $H_2O_2$, trivalent titanium ion ($Ti^{3+}$) and 4-(2-thiazolylazo) resorcinol (TAR), resulting in a ternary complex with a maximum UV absorbance at 530 nm. The CE detection of $H_2O_2$ was fast, sensitive and cost-effective without pretreatment procedures. $H_2O_2$ was detected within 15 min at 1 to $100{\mu}M$ range with the lowest detection limit at $1.0{\mu}M$. Under the optimized CE conditions, the concentration of $H_2O_2$ in coffee or tea extract was quantitatively determined. Our results show that CE detection of the ternary complex of $H_2O_2-Ti^{3+}$-TAR has potential applications for the detection of $H_2O_2$ in aqueous sources.

Steel Surface Defect Detection using the RetinaNet Detection Model

  • Sharma, Mansi;Lim, Jong-Tae;Chae, Yi-Geun
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.136-146
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    • 2022
  • Some surface defects make the weak quality of steel materials. To limit these defects, we advocate a one-stage detector model RetinaNet among diverse detection algorithms in deep learning. There are several backbones in the RetinaNet model. We acknowledged two backbones, which are ResNet50 and VGG19. To validate our model, we compared and analyzed several traditional models, one-stage models like YOLO and SSD models and two-stage models like Faster-RCNN, EDDN, and Xception models, with simulations based on steel individual classes. We also performed the correlation of the time factor between one-stage and two-stage models. Comparative analysis shows that the proposed model achieves excellent results on the dataset of the Northeastern University surface defect detection dataset. We would like to work on different backbones to check the efficiency of the model for real world, increasing the datasets through augmentation and focus on improving our limitation.

A Study on the Pesticide Residues Monitoring of Medicinal Herbs which has marketed in the Daejeon (대전 지역 유통 식용 한약재의 잔류농약 실태 연구)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Shin;Kim, Sung Gu;Lim, Jae Yeun;Kim, Byoung-Soo
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.129-143
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    • 2013
  • This study was conducted to investigate the residue amount of pesticide on the 41 medicinal herbs in Daejeon area. This study was carried out to monitor the current status of pesticide residues in commercial medicinal herbs for sale of food use in 2012. It was performed using GC/ECD, GC/NPD, HPLC to analyze pesticides residues. Residues of 283 pesticides were analyzed by a simultaneous multiresidue method in 41 medicinal herbs being on sale in Daejeon. The medicinal herbs detected pesticides in 10 of 41 cases, showed a detection rate of 24.39%. The medicinal herbs which exceed the maximum residue limit were five cases as Cnidii Rhizoma, Osterici Radix, Artemisiae Capillaris Herba, Zizyphi Fructus and Alismatis Rhizoma. And pesticide residue of Cnidii Rhizoma and Alismatis Rhizoma exceeds the limit standard presented in only medicine use of KFDA. The residual pesticides which had the high detection rate were Chlopyrifos, Tebuconazole and Endosulfan in the detection of medicinal herbs. For further research, standards of Pesticide Residues in medicinal herbs should be added and more research of pesticide residues in medicinal herbs required. And standards of pesticide residues in medicinal herbs should be applied equally as medicines and food.

Electrochemical Detection of Self-Assembled Viologen Modified Electrode as Mediator of Glucose Sensor

  • Lee, Dong-Yun;Choi, Won-Suk;Park, Sang-Hyun;Kwon, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.106-110
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    • 2009
  • An amperometric glucose biosensor has been developed using viologen derivatives as a charge transfer mediator between a glucose oxidase (GOD) and a gold electrode. A highly stable self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of thiol-based viologen was immobilized onto the gold electrode of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and GOD was immobilized onto the viologen modified electrode. This biosensor response to glucose was evaluated amperometrically in the potential of -300mV. Upon immobilization of the glucose oxidase onto the viologen modified electrode, the biosensor showed rapid response towards glucose. Experimental conditions influencing the biosensor performance, such as pH potential, were optimized and assessed. This biosensor offered excellent electrochemical responses for glucose concentration below ${\mu}$ mol level with high sensitivity and selectivity and short response time. The levels of the RSDs (<5%) for the entire analyses reflected the highly reproducible sensor performance. A linear calibration range between the current and the glucose concentration was obtained up to $4.5{\times}10^{-4}M$. The detection limit was determined to be $3.0{\times}10^{-6}M$.