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A Sensitive Visual Method for the Detection of Hydrogen Sulfide Producing Bacteria
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Chih-Chau Hwang1, Gedeng Ruan, Lu Wang
1Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, §Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, ∥The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and ⊥The Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
|April 17, 2014
Abstract:
Polyvinyl alcohol functionalized carbon black with H2S-sensor moieties can be pumped through oil and water in porous rock and the H2S content can be determined based on the fluorescent enhancement of the H2S-sensor addends.

