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. 2018 Nov 16;18(11):3998. doi: 10.3390/s18113998

Table 1.

A comparison of the proposed sensor with other detection methods.

Method Tool Linear Range LOD Time Real Sample Ref.
colorimetric platinum nanoparticles 0.01–4 nM 0.0085 nM 10 min tap water [18]
colorimetric gold nanoparticles 25–750 nM 50 nM 40 min pond and river water [33]
colorimetric Cu2-xSe nanoparticles 0–800 nM 2.7 nM 10 min tap, pond and river water [35]
colorimetric gold nanoparticles and aptamer 10–1000 nM 17.3 nM 20 min tap, rivers, lakes and ocean water [34]
Raman spectroscopy silver nanoparticles 1–1000 μM 10 nM 30 min drinking mineral water [32]
fluorescence Phosphorothioate RNA Modifications 0–50 nM 1.7 nM 20 min lake water [37]
fluorescence MoS2 nanosheet/DNA/
carbon dot
0–10 nM 1.02 nM 15 min tap and lake water [19]
fluorescence fluorescent 8-amino
BODIPY-based probe
0.5–5 μM 49 nM 50 min SMMC-7721 cells [31]
fluorescence polarization CdTe/CdS QDs 10–800 nM 8.6 nM 2.0 h lake and spiked
lake water
[36]
fluorescence polyT-TMPyP 5–100 nM 1.3 nM 60 s Tap and river water this work