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Quantifying Fish Swimming Behavior in Response to Acute Exposure of Aqueous Copper Using Computer Assisted Video and Digital Image Analysis
Published on: February 26, 2016
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A visual volumetric hydrogel sensor enables quantitative and sensitive detection of copper ions
Rui Wu1, Shenghai Zhang, Jitong Lyu
1Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, P. R. China. lvjiagen@snnu.edu.cn xfyue@snnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We propose a visual volumetric sensor with 5,6-dicarboxylic fluorescein cross-linked amine-functionalized polyacrylamide hydrogel. The sensor undergoes volume response to Cu(2+) ions at the μM level, which enables naked-eye quantitative detection by reading the graduation on a pipette.

