Development of a portable arsenite sensor for detecting arsenic-contaminated water

开发用于检测砷污染水的便携式亚砷酸盐传感器

• 批准号: 131347
• 金额: $ 3.12万
• 依托单位: THE BIO NANO CENTRE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=131347
• 关键词: Development; portable; arsenite; sensor; detecting

Millennium Development Goal 7c - to reduce by half the 4 billion people without sustainable access to safe drinking water - has acted as an impetus for the rapid growth in water quality field-testing in developing countries, where the adage ‘what you cannot measure, you cannot manage’ is apt. The WHO/UNICEF Monitoring Programme requires the testing of arsenic as one of the five core chemicals to be tested, as it is naturally found in aquifers on a global scale and is toxic even at extremely low levels (10 parts per billion). Using a unique enzyme, this project innovatively modifies the technology contained in familiar glucose home tests manufactured in the billions each year, to create a step-change improvement in arsenic testing by solving customer usability, cost and accuracy needs. Millions of users have demonstrated the ease-of-use of glucose tests; now similar technology can be used to transform arsenic testing, resulting in a significant benefit.

千年发展目标7 c-将无法持续获得安全饮用水的40亿人口减少一半-推动了发展中国家水质实地测试的快速增长，在这些国家，"无法衡量的，就无法管理“这句格言是很恰当的。世卫组织/儿童基金会监测方案要求将砷作为五种核心化学品之一进行测试，因为砷天然存在于全球范围的含水层中，即使在极低的水平（十亿分之十）也具有毒性。该项目使用一种独特的酶，创新性地修改了每年数十亿人生产的常见葡萄糖家庭测试中所包含的技术，通过解决客户的可用性，成本和准确性需求，在砷测试中实现了逐步改进。数以百万计的用户已经证明了葡萄糖测试的易用性;现在类似的技术可以用于改变砷测试，从而带来显著的效益。