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An Inexpensive Paper-Based Photoluminescent Sensor for Gallate Derived Green Tea Polyphenols
Tumpa Gorai1, Shruthi Sakthivel2, Uday Maitra2
1Current address: School of Chemistry Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), Trinity College Dublin, 152-160 Pearse Street, Dublin, 2, Ireland.
Abstract:
This work describes a terbium luminescence-based protocol to selectively detect gallate-derived green tea polyphenols on a supramolecular gel immobilised paper platform for the first time. This user-friendly, inexpensive (€ 0.0015) approach requires very low sample volumes for the analysis. The developed strategy enables simultaneous detection of gallate polyphenols in multiple tea samples with the potential for practical applications.

