Facile Synthesis of Ag NP Films via Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly and the BA-Sensing Properties
Jiahang Yu,
Huixin Tian,
Mingyuan Huang,
Xinglian Xu
Affiliations
Jiahang Yu
Key Laboratory of Meat Processing and Quality Control, Ministry of Education, National Center of Meat Quality and Safety Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Huixin Tian
Key Laboratory of Meat Processing and Quality Control, Ministry of Education, National Center of Meat Quality and Safety Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Mingyuan Huang
Key Laboratory of Meat Processing and Quality Control, Ministry of Education, National Center of Meat Quality and Safety Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Xinglian Xu
Key Laboratory of Meat Processing and Quality Control, Ministry of Education, National Center of Meat Quality and Safety Control, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Meat Production and Processing, Quality and Safety Control, College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Herein, we design and prepare large-area silver nanoparticle (Ag NP) films based on evaporation-induced self-assembly, which offers the visual and real-time detection of chilled broiler meat freshness. The color change is based on the fact that an increase in the biogenic amine (BA) concentration causes a change in the absorption wavelength of Ag NPs caused by aggregation and etch of the Ag NPs, resulting in a yellow to brown color change, thus enabling a naked-eye readout of the BA exposure. The Ag NP films exhibit a rapid, sensitive, and linear response to BAs in a wide detection range of 2 µM to 100 µM. The Ag NP films are successfully applied as a quick-response, online, high-contrasting colorimetric sensor for visual detection of the freshness of chilled broiler meat.
