What is it about?
The conventional strategies of sampling and detection units in sequence for atmospheric metal measurement are simplified into a sampling/detection interface. A concept of aerosol-into-liquid capture and detection that bridges free-flowing gas and static liquid phases could realize one-step capture and detection via the gas/liquid interface, which presents effective capture of airborne particles down to nanometers size and detection of soluble metals at the nanogram level.
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Why is it important?
Atmospheric soluble metals are strongly associated with adverse health effects. However, the monitoring of atmospheric soluble metals requires time-consuming efforts and great expense to complete sampling and detection steps due to their low concentrations and technology limitations. This new concept has broad potential in rapid and cost-effective monitoring of atmospheric soluble components to protect human health and can be extended to other applications, such as online in vitro evaluation of airborne particles based on electrochemical techniques.
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The one-step design of the presented technology provides a new and efficient concept based on carefully engineered gas-liquid interface and could be extended to measurement of various airborne substances.
Jing Wang
ETH Zürich
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This page is a summary of: Aerosol-into-liquid capture and detection of atmospheric soluble metals across the gas–liquid interface using Janus-membrane electrodes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219388120.
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