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Integrated Passive Sensing Chip for Highly Sensitive and Reusable Detection of Differential-Charged Nanoplastics Concentration
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Researchers developed a passive sensing chip based on complementary split ring resonators to detect nanoplastics of different surface charges and sizes in aqueous solution using microwave signals. The method achieved high sensitivity for positively charged nanoplastics and offers a reusable detection approach.
In this work, a new type, highly sensitive, and reusable nanoplastics (NPs) microwave detection method is proposed, which can be used to rapidly analyze NPs with different surface charges and sizes. The effective dielectric constant of NPs varies according to the different concentrations, particle sizes, and surface charges of NPs in aqueous solution. The feasibility of the microwave method for differential-charged NPs detection is verified using a complementary split ring resonator sensor manufactured on a cost-effective printed circuit board, which shows a high sensitivity only for positively charged NPs (PS-NH2) detection. To achieve microwave detection of both positively and negatively charged NPs (PS-SO3H), a microscale spiral-coupled resonator sensing chip is manufactured through integrated passive technology, which demonstrates extremely low detection limits and high sensitivity for both PS-NH2 and PS-SO3H, with different concentrations, particle sizes, and charges. In addition, for NPs solution doped with methyl orange, the device can still perform stable measurements, overcoming the inability of traditional NPs molecular element determination and optical detection methods to detect NPs aqueous solution with organic matter doping and color presence. The proposed microwave detection method could also be extended to sensing detection for detecting other hazardous environmental substances.
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