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Facile All-Optical Method for In Situ Detection of Low Amounts of Ammonia.

ABSTRACT: As a key precursor for nitrogenous compounds and fertilizer, ammonia affects our lives in numerous ways. Rapid and sensitive detection of ammonia is essential, both in environmental monitoring and in process control for industrial production. Here we report a novel and nonperturbative method that allows rapid detection of ammonia at low concentrations, based on the all-optical detection of surface-enhanced Raman signals. We show that this simple and affordable approach enables ammonia probing at selected regions of interest with high spatial resolution, making in situ and operando observations possible.

SUBMITTER: Liu Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7674512 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Facile All-Optical Method for <i>In Situ</i> Detection of Low Amounts of Ammonia.

Liu Yuanchao Y Asset Tristan T Chen Yechuan Y Murphy Eamonn E Potma Eric O EO Matanovic Ivana I Fishman Dmitry A DA Atanassov Plamen P

iScience 20201101 11

As a key precursor for nitrogenous compounds and fertilizer, ammonia affects our lives in numerous ways. Rapid and sensitive detection of ammonia is essential, both in environmental monitoring and in process control for industrial production. Here we report a novel and nonperturbative method that allows rapid detection of ammonia at low concentrations, based on the all-optical detection of surface-enhanced Raman signals. We show that this simple and affordable approach enables ammonia probing at ...[more]

PMID: 33241202

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