Sensors (Jan 2022)

Fast and Sensitive Determination of Bioflavonoids Using a New Analytical System Based on Label-Free Silver Triangular Nanoplates

  • Aleksei Furletov,
  • Vladimir Apyari,
  • Alexey Garshev,
  • Stanislava Dmitrienko,
  • Yury Zolotov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030843
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 3
p. 843

Abstract

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Optical sensors based on silver triangular nanoplates (AgTNPs) are insufficiently studied as probes for the spectrophotometric determination of biologically active compounds. In the present article, an interaction between label-free AgTNPs and bioflavonoids in the presence of silver(I) ions was assessed to outline the possibilities of AgTNPs as a colorimetric probe for the fast and sensitive determination of bioflavonoids. It is shown that the interaction was accompanied by a bathochromic shift of the local surface plasmon resonance band of nanoparticles and an increase in its intensity. Seven bioflavonoids differing in their structure were tested. The influence of the structure of analytes and the main external factors on the analytical signal is discussed in detail. It was found that the detection limits of bioflavonoids in the selected optimal conditions increased in the series morin −1, respectively. Chrysin, naringenin, and naringin were found not to affect the spectral characteristics of AgTNPs. The suggested approach was applied for the spectrophotometric determination of flavonoids in pharmaceuticals and onion peel.

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