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Identification of Chinese teas by a colorimetric sensor array based on tea polyphenol induced indicator displacement
Mingyan Jia1, Yixuan Pan2, Jianbo Zhou2
1College of Pharmacy, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, PR China; Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 610075, PR China.
Abstract:
In this work, we developed an optical colorimetric sensor array for the discrimination of Chinese teas. The sensor array was carefully designed based on tea polyphenol induced indicators displacement assay (IDA), using phenylboronic acids with different substituents as the receptors to polyphenols. The accurate identification for polyphenols with different species or concentrations proved the potential of the sensor array. The sensor array successfully distinguished tea samples within different categories, grades and origins, coupling with PLS-DA. This work offered an efficient and rapid method to distinguish teas and tea-related products. Besides, the assay is supposed to be suitable for the identification of other polyphenol-related natural products.
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