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2 and 8.6 μg L-1, 17.4-28.7 μg L-1 and 1.3-12.9%, respectively. Urine samples of five individuals (three males and two females) were used for accuracy evaluation. The accuracy obtained in these spiked urine samples at μg L-1 levels varied from 95.3 to 112.0%. The method also provided clean mass spectra with a high signal-to-noise ratio, which demonstrates the analytical appeal combination of supramolecular microextraction with determination by paper spray mass spectrometry. Functional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) constructed via a pre-installation strategy of introducing mixed organic ligands have attracted considerable interest in various fields. In the present study, boronic acid decorated magnetic Zr-MOFs were successfully synthesized by introducing 3-carboxyphenylboronic acid ligands as fragments. The prepared material was used as an adsorbent for the enrichment of cis-diol-containing nucleosides. The adsorbent has excellent performance with regard to the enrichment and separation of the nucleosides. This may be attributed to its abundant boronic acid functional groups, and the convenience of magnetic separation it provides. The obtained material was chemically stable over a large pH range. The degree of linearity of the nucleosides was excellent (0.02-10 μg mL-1), and the detection and quantification limits were low (0.006-0.016 μg mL-1 and 0.02-0.05 μg mL-1, respectively). Furthermore, it was possible to attain adsorption equilibrium within 10 min. The high efficiency of this method makes it suitable for the successful extraction of nucleosides from human urine samples, with satisfactory recoveries of 88-146%, and 1.7-9.4% precision. We believe that the fabricated functional magnetic MOFs have great potential for the analysis of other cis-diol-containing target, and the pre-installation strategy could be adapted for the wider application of MOFs. The need of performing "in situ" analytical determinations together with the availability of high-power deep UV-LEDs have led to the use of fluorescence spectroscopy. However, it is necessary to register excitation-emission matrices (EEM) to obtain three-way data which can be decomposed using parallel factor analysis for enabling the unequivocal identification of the analytes. In this context, the feasibility of transferring EEM between a portable fluorimeter based on LEDs and a master fluorimeter based on a xenon source has been recently reported without losing analytical quality. To build the transfer function, the signals of the same N samples must be recorded in the portable and in the master fluorimeter. In literature, these samples always contained the target analytes so the EEM signal transfer methodology is very limited in practice. Therefore, the challenge is to search for a set of samples whose EEM enable to perform the signal transfer without previously knowing the target analytes. The aim of this On the other hand, the correlation coefficients obtained with the portable fluorimeter ranged from 0.900 to 0.950 once the procedure was applied to the two antibiotics. Therefore, the unequivocal identification of the analytes was ensured. Analytical capabilities of Nanoscopic Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (nano-SIMS) and Synchrotron Radiation based X-ray Fluorescence (SR nano-XRF) techniques were compared for nanochemical imaging of polymorphonuclear human neutrophils (PMNs). PMNs were high pressure frozen (HPF), cryo-substituted, embedded in Spurr's resin and cut in thin sections (500 nm and 2 μm for both techniques resp.) Nano-SIMS enabled nanoscale mapping of isotopes of C, N, O, P and S, while SR based nano-XRF enabled trace level imaging of metals like Ca, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu and Zn at a resolution of approx. 50 nm. NG25 mw The obtained elemental distributions were compared with those of whole, cryofrozen PMNs measured at the newly developed ID16A nano-imaging beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. Similarities were observed for elements more tightly bound to the cell structure such as phosphorus and sulphur, while differences for mobile ions such as chlorine and potassium were more pronounced. Due to the observed elemental redistribution of mobile ions such as potassium and chlorine, elemental analysis of high pressure frozen (HPF), cryo-substituted and imbedded cells should be interpreted critically. Although decreasing analytical sensitivity occurs due to the presence of ice, analysis of cryofrozen cells - close to their native state - remains the golden standard. In general, we found nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (nano-SIMS) and synchrotron radiation based nanoscopic X-ray fluorescence (SR nano-XRF) to be two supplementary alternatives for nanochemical imaging of single cells at the nanoscale. A new method that allows organic acid selectivity to be dynamically controlled during gas chromatography (GC) is presented. It employs dual in-series stainless steel columns, each coated with a pH-adjusted water stationary phase. The first is a 2 m column coated with a pH 11.4 phase that is connected to a second 11 m column coated with a pH 2.2 phase. In this arrangement, organic acids within sample mixtures are trapped on the first column, while the remaining non-ionizable components continue to separate and elute in the system. Later, by injecting a volatile formic acid solution, the trapped acids are released in-situ to the second column for separation and analysis as desired. The method provides good reproducibility with analyte retention times in consecutive trials yielding an average RSD of 1.9%. Further, depending on column temperature, analytes can be readily retained for periods investigated up to about 30 min without significant deterioration in peak shape. This feature provides considerable control over analyte selectivity and resolution compared to conventional separations. Further, by adding a third conventional GC column in-series, both typical hydrocarbon and enhanced organic acid separations are made possible. The method is applied to the analysis of complex mixtures and matrix interference is found to be significantly minimized. Results indicate that this approach offers beneficial advantages for the selective GC analysis of such acidic analytes. In this work, a novel bright yellow fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) was synthesized from N-methyl-1,2-phenylenediamine hydrochloride in ethanol solvent through the solvothermal method. The obtained carbon dots had no fluorescence in water, but could specifically light up in the cell which makes the staining process without washing. Interestingly, the imaging process can be performed by simply shaking the culture with the cells for only 1 min, indicating ultrafast and easy to operate fluorescence imaging. Moreover, the carbon dots with abundant amino functional groups had good lysosome targeting properties (the Pearson's correlation coefficient is 0.92) and could achieve the ultrafast lysosome imaging in cell and zebrafish and monitoring cell apoptosis status. This is the first lysosome targeting carbon dots that allows the combination of a short incubation at the second-level with wash-free process providing great potential for continuous observation lysosome in vivo. Fluorescent organic dots (O-dots) recently have emerged as a new class of promising contrast reagents for two-photon fluorescence (TPF) imaging. However, most of these developed two-photon absorption (TPA) O-dots have no tumor-targeting group, which hampers their wide application for targeted tumor imaging. Herein, we fabricated Sgc8c aptamer-mediated TPA O-dots as a proof-of-concept of the sensing platform for targeted imaging in live cells or deep tissues. The O-dots composed of trans-4-[p-(N, N-diethylamino)styryl]-4'-(dimethyl amino) stilbene (DEAS) emerged as TPA organic emissive cores and encapsulation by using poly (methyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid) (PMMA-co-MAA) as polymeric encapsulating matrix to form DEAS/PMMA-co-MAA O-dots via a co-precipitation strategy. The obtained O-dots enabled an extremely high TPA absorption cross-section, bright two-photon fluorescence (excitation at 720 nm; emission at 412 nm and 434 nm), excellent cell-permeability and high penetration depth. Sgc8c aptamer, as a protein tyrosine kinase-7 (PTK7) receptor-targetable ligand, was further anchored on the surface of O-dots to obtain DEAS/PMMA-co-MAA@Sgc8c nanoprobes by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC)-mediated coupling reaction. Guided by Sgc8c aptamer, DEAS/PMMA-co-MAA@Sgc8c nanoprobes could be rapidly internalized into target acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells (CEM) cells with high specificity and great efficiency. It was also performed that two-photon images of TPA nanoprobes exhibited high two-photon brightness not only in target CEM cells, but also in mouse liver tissue slices even a depth of up to 210 μm. In our perception, it is highly promising that this nanoprobe provides a valuable tool for in vivo targeted imaging. Urgent demand for portable diagnosis has promoted a new sensing strategy that uses personal glucometer (PGM) to detect non-glucose targets. Even though great progresses have been achieved in terms of target range and sensing principle, issues such as low final signal-to-background ratio and hard-to-realize one-tube smart analysis still exist and challenge real-world applications in gene detection. Here we propose a practical solution via coupling isothermal amplification (i.e. LAMP) and three-way amplifiable catalytic hairpin assembly (i.e. CHA) to a PGM. It allows direct transduction from genomic information to commercial portable devices with all of ultra-high sensitivity, specificity and enhanced signal-to-noise ratio. Compared with previous report without signal amplification, the introduction of CHA has successfully improved the signal amplitude by at least 12.5 folds. More importantly, through importing an effective three-way junction based transduction, we also innovatively develop a one-tube logical or multiplex analysis strategy in PGM based detection. Totally four situations of two foodborne bacteria genes, in Cronobacter sakazakii (ompA) and Escherichia coli (malB), could be directly readout using the final PGM signals, with the lowest detection amount down to less than 100 molecular copies (6.6 × 10-18 M). It is believed such a LAMP-CHA-PGM method has been already sensitive, specific, and of great potential for practically portable gene diagnostics. Photoactive materials with high photo-electron transfer efficiency and stable signal output hold a key role in constructing the photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensing systems. In this study, the ternary CdS@Au-g-C3N4 heterojunction was first prepared and characterized, and its application in PEC bioanalysis was explored. The gold nanoparticles sandwiched between CdS and g-C3N4, acting as both plasmonic photosensitizer and electron relay, significantly boosted the light absorption and accelerated the charge transfer from g-C3N4 to CdS, both of which contributed to the enhancement of photoelectric conversion efficiency. Signal quenching with graphene oxide-CuS efficiently weakened the photocurrent from CdS@Au-g-C3N4. The combination of the excellent PEC properties of CdS@Au-g-C3N4 and the remarkable quenching effects of graphene oxide-CuS enabled construction of a sandwich-type PEC immunosensor for prostate specific antigen (PSA) detection. This immunosensor achieved sensitive PSA analysis by multiple signal amplification mechanisms, with a detection limit of 0.
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