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Portable luminescent fiber- and glove-based nanosensor for multicolor visual detection of tetracycline in food samples

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An intelligent fluorescent nanoprobe (lignite-CDs-Eu) was constructed by an effective and facile method based on lignite-derived carbon dots (CDs) and lanthanide europium ions (Eu3+), which exhibited high sensitivity, low detection limit (13.35 nM) and visual color variation (from blue to red) under ultraviolet light towards tetracycline (TC) detection. Significantly, portable and economical sensors were developed using lignite-CDs-Eu immobilized fiber material of filter paper and wearable glove with the aid of color extracting and image processing application (APP) in the smartphone. Facile, fast and real-time visual detection of TC in food samples was realized. Moreover, logic gate circuit was also designed to achieve intelligent and semi-quantitative inspection of TC. To some extent, this study extended the cross-application of intelligent computer software in food analytical science, and provided a certain reference for the development of small portable detection sensors which were suitable for convenience and non-professional use in daily life.

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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (222300420047)，the foundation of the Science and Technology Innovation Team in Henan Universities (24IRTSTHN014)，the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21805071, 22205256)，the Key Scientific Research Project of Henan Province (24A150011), the projects selected for "Double First Class" creation of safety disciplines at Henan Polytechnic University (AQ20230760, AQ20230761), and the Innovative Research Team of Henan Polytechnic University (T2021-2).

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    Lina Zhang, Xia Zhang, Yiru Xu, Jun Xu, Yuanyuan Huang, Yingqi Yuan & Lei Jia

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Lina Zhang: Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing–original draft. Xia Zhang: Investigation, Validation, Formal analysis. Yiru Xu: Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Visualization. Jun Xu: Conceptualization, Visualization. Yuanyuan Huang: Methodology, Funding acquisition. Yingqi Yuan: Methodology, Validation. Lei Jia: Funding acquisition, Writing–review & editing, Resources, Supervision.

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Zhang, L., Zhang, X., Xu, Y. et al. Portable luminescent fiber- and glove-based nanosensor for multicolor visual detection of tetracycline in food samples. Microchim Acta 191, 225 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-024-06306-3

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