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Detection limit

About: Detection limit is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 34379 publications have been published within this topic receiving 644817 citations. The topic is also known as: limit of detection & lower detection limit.


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TL;DR: In this article, a continuous flow, microfluidic absorption cell and detection system for detecting nitrite using the Griess reaction is described. But the system was used to detect nitrite, but it could equally be used to assay a range of different chemistries using colourimetric methods.
Abstract: The design, fabrication, analysis and characterisation of a continuous flow, microfluidic absorption cell and detection system is described. A low cost optical illumination and detection method is integrated with a simple microfluidic system. Nitrite is detected at nM concentration using the Griess reaction. The device is based on a novel optical absorption scheme with microfluidic channels made from tinted PMMA. An absorbance path length of 25 mm enables nitrite to be detected from 50 nM to 10 μM with a limit of detection of 14 nM. The system was used to characterise the reaction kinetics and maximum sample resolution. In this report the system is used to detect nitrite, but it could equally be used to assay a range of different chemistries using colourimetric methods. The system provides a cost-effective, simple system that could be deployed in a range of scenarios for environmental monitoring.

104 citations

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TL;DR: A new simple and rapid cold-induced aggregation microextraction (CIAME) method was applied to preconcentrate cobalt(II) ions from water samples as a prior step to its determination by fiber optic-linear array detection spectrophotometry (FO-LADS).

104 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis and electrochemical application of a glutathione functionalized magnetic nanocomposite (GSH@Fe3O4) for the development of a simple, stable and selective sensor for heavy metal ion detection in real-life samples for the first time.
Abstract: We introduce the synthesis and electrochemical application of a glutathione functionalized magnetic nanocomposite (GSH@Fe3O4) for the development of a simple, stable and selective sensor for heavy metal ion detection in real-life samples for the first time. The monitoring method is based on electrochemical preconcentration/reduction of metal ions onto a GSH@Fe3O4 modified magnetic glassy carbon electrode, followed by subsequent anodic stripping. This method allows the detection of Pb2+ and Cd2+ ions with high sensitivity (calculated detection limits of 0.182 μgL−1 and 0.172 μgL−1), low cost, and great convenience in operation and was tested for different water samples. The results infer that the GSH@Fe3O4 nanocomposite can be an alternative candidate for practical applications in electrochemical detection of metal ions.

104 citations

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TL;DR: The lower detection limit and the selectivity behavior of anion-selective electrodes (ISEs) are improved by using optimized inner solutions and membrane compositions but improvements are less pronounced than in the case of cation ISEs.
Abstract: The lower detection limit and the selectivity behavior of anion-selective electrodes (ISEs) are improved by using optimized inner solutions and membrane compositions. With a membrane based on the recently described ionophore [9]mercuracarborand-3, a detection limit of 2 × 10-9 M has been achieved for iodide. Nevertheless, the improvements are less pronounced than in the case of cation ISEs. This is mainly due to the fact that so far no anion ISE is known with the extremely high selectivities of cation ISEs. If the membrane does not contain an ionophore, leaching of the ion exchanger from the membrane into the sample is also a relevant limiting factor except for ion exchangers of very high lipophilicity.

104 citations

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TL;DR: Three different approaches to the liquid chromatographic detection of nitro polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in air and diesel particulate extracts are presented, based on differential pulse (LCDPD) and amperometric (LCEC) electrochemical detection and fluorescence detection following online reduction to the amine (LCFI).
Abstract: Three different approaches to the liquid chromatographic detection of nitro polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in air and diesel particulate extracts are presented, based on differential pulse (LCDPD) and amperometric (LCEC) electrochemical detection and fluorescence detection following online reduction to the amine (LCFI). The particulate extraction/fractionation procedure for each detection approach is discussed. The operational advantages of oxygen removal with a platinum oxygen scrubber (all three types of detection), the use of modulated pulse detection, and wavelength-programmed fluorescence detection are explored. 1-Nitropyrene is determined in Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1650 diesel particulate matter and in several other round robin samples by all three methods. Results are compared to those obtained by other techniques (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry) and by other laboratories (LCFI). Additionally, 2-nitrofluorene, 9-nitroanthracene, 7-nitrobenz(a)anthracene, and 6-nitrobenzo(a)pyrene are determined in SRM 1650 by LCFI. The detection limits for 1-nitropyrene (expressed as picograms) are 5200 (LCDPD), 60 (LCEC), and 10 (LCFI).

104 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20236,071
202212,796
20211,671
20201,442
20191,445