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Highly sensitive and selective determination of hydrogen sulfide by resonance light scattering technique based on silver nanoparticles

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We have developed a green approach to prepare DNA-templated silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) from the direct reaction between Ag+ and ascorbic acid in the presence of DNA and sodium hydroxide. The Ag-NPs showed strong resonance light scattering (RLS) intensity property. Then, the interaction between hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and Ag-NPs was studied by measuring their RLS spectra. The results showed that there is a strong interaction between Ag-NPs and H2S, which resulted in a decrease in the size of Ag-NPs and a decrease in the RLS intensity of the Ag-NPs solution at the wavelength of 467 nm. The results demonstrated that the RLS technique offers a sensitive and simple tool for investigating the interaction between Ag-NPs and H2S, which can be applied to detect H2S with high sensitivity and selectivity without complex readout equipment. The linear range for H2S determination was found to be the range from 5.0 × 10−9 to 1.0 × 10−7 mol L−1, and the detection limit (3σ/k) was 2.8 × 10−9 mol L−1. Moreover, the proposed method was applied for the determination of H2S in natural water samples with satisfactory results.

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This work has been gotten the supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21275047 to YL, No. 21445008 to SC), supported by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2016JJ5005 to YL), and Doctor Science Foundation of Hunan University of Science and Technology.

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    Yangfang Kuang, Shu Chen & Yunfei Long

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Kuang, Y., Chen, S. & Long, Y. Highly sensitive and selective determination of hydrogen sulfide by resonance light scattering technique based on silver nanoparticles. Anal Bioanal Chem 409, 4001–4008 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-017-0343-5

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