In situ integration of graphene foam-titanium nitride based bio-scaffolds and microfluidic structures for soil nutrient sensors.

نویسندگان

  • Md Azahar Ali
  • Kunal Mondal
  • Yifei Wang
  • Huawei Jiang
  • Navreet K Mahal
  • Michael J Castellano
  • Ashutosh Sharma
  • Liang Dong
چکیده

It is challenging to integrate porous graphene foam (GF) and GF-based nanocomposites into microfluidic channels and even create microfluidic structures within these materials. This is because their irregular interior pore shape and geometry, rough exterior surface, and relatively large material thickness make it difficult to perform conventional photolithography and etching. This challenge has largely hindered the potential of using GF-based materials in microfluidics-based sensors. Here we present a simple approach to create well-defined flow-through channels within or across the GF-based materials, using a liquid-phase photopolymerization method. This method allows embedding of a nanocomposite-based scaffold of GF and titanium nitride nanofibers (GF-TiN NFs) into a channel structure, to realize flow-through microfluidic electrochemical sensors for detecting nitrate ions in agricultural soils. The unique GF-TiN nanocomposite provides high electrochemical reactivity, high electron transfer rate, improved loading capacity of receptor biomolecules, and large surface area, serving as an efficient electrochemical sensing interface with the help of immobilized specific enzyme molecules. The microfluidic sensor provides an ultralow limit of detection of 0.01 mg L-1, a wide dynamic range from 0.01 to 442 mg L-1, and a high sensitivity of 683.3 μA mg-1 L cm-2 for nitrate ions in real soil solution samples. The advantageous features of the GF-TiN nanocomposite, in conjunction with the in situ integration approach, will enable a promising microfluidic sensor platform to monitor soil ions for nutrient management towards sustainable agriculture.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Lab on a chip

دوره 17 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017