School of Food & Biological Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Agricultural Products Modern Processing, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
China Food Flavor and Nutrition Health Innovation Center, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China.
Anal Chem. 2024 Sep 10;96(36):14706-14713. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c04051. Epub 2024 Aug 29.
Concerns regarding the hazard of the carcinogenic ethyl carbamate (EC) have driven attempts to exploit efficient, timely, straightforward, and economic assays for warning early food safety. Here, we proposed a novel molecularly imprinted polymer Co@MOF-MIP, with a high peroxidase (POD)-like activity and a bright blue fluorescence emission, to develop a versatile visual assay for colorimetric, fluorescent, and photothermal trimodal detection and logic gate outputting of EC. Briefly, the POD-like activity of Co@MOF-MIP made it to decompose HO into OH for oxidizing colorless 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) into a blue oxTMB, resulting in a 660 nm irradiated photothermal effect and bursting the blue fluorescence of Co@MOF-MIP via inner filter effect, observing a decreased fluorescence signal together with an increased colorimetric and 660 nm irradiated photothermal signals. However, EC could specifically fill the imprinted cavities of Co@MOF-MIP to block the catalytic substrates TMB and HO out of Co@MOF-MIP for further reacting with the inside catalytic center of Co, resulting in the transformation suppressing of TMB into oxTMB, yielding an EC concentration-dependent trimodal responses in fluorescence signal enhancement, colorimetric, and 660 nm irradiated photothermal signal decreases. Assisted by the portable devices such as smartphones and hand-held thermal imagers, a visual onsite portable trimodal analytical platform was proposed for EC fast and accurate detection with the low detection limits of 1.64, 1.24, and 1.78 μg/L in colorimetric, fluorescent, and photothermal modes, respectively. Interestingly, these reactive events could be programmed by the classical Boolean logic gate analysis to offer a novel promising avenue for the big data Internet of Things monitoring and warning early residual EC in a more intelligent, dynamical, fast, and accurate manner, safeguarding food safety.
人们对致癌物质氨基甲酸乙酯 (EC) 的危害感到担忧,这促使人们试图开发高效、及时、直接且经济的方法来预警早期食品安全问题。在这里,我们提出了一种新型的分子印迹聚合物 Co@MOF-MIP,它具有高过氧化物酶 (POD) 样活性和明亮的蓝色荧光发射,用于开发一种用于比色、荧光和光热三模态检测和逻辑门输出的多功能可视化分析方法,以检测 EC。简而言之,Co@MOF-MIP 的 POD 样活性使其分解 HO 生成 OH 用于氧化无色 3,3',5,5'-四甲基联苯胺 (TMB) 生成蓝色 oxTMB,导致在 660nm 辐照下产生光热效应,并通过内滤效应破坏 Co@MOF-MIP 的蓝色荧光,同时观察到荧光信号降低,比色和 660nm 辐照光热信号增加。然而,EC 可以特异性地填充 Co@MOF-MIP 的印迹空穴,从而阻止催化底物 TMB 和 HO 进入 Co@MOF-MIP 以进一步与 Co 的内部催化中心反应,导致 TMB 向 oxTMB 的转化受到抑制,从而产生荧光信号增强、比色和 660nm 辐照光热信号降低的 EC 浓度依赖性三模态响应。借助智能手机和手持式热像仪等便携式设备,提出了一种用于 EC 快速准确检测的可视化现场便携式三模态分析平台,该平台在比色、荧光和光热模式下的检测限分别低至 1.64、1.24 和 1.78μg/L。有趣的是,这些反应事件可以通过经典的布尔逻辑门分析进行编程,为基于大数据的物联网监测和早期残留 EC 预警提供了一种新的有前途的方法,以更智能、动态、快速和准确的方式保障食品安全。
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