Ag2S-gated ion rectification in confined AgNCs@UiO-66 nanochannels enables sensitive monitoring of bacterial H2S release

Xiaotong Cui; Yuxin Xie; Siyu Wan; Zhonggang Liu; Zheng Guo; Xingjiu Huang

doi:10.1039/d5cc03005f

Ag₂S-gated ion rectification in confined AgNCs@UiO-66 nanochannels enables sensitive monitoring of bacterial H₂S release

Chem Commun (Camb). 2025 Jul 4. doi: 10.1039/d5cc03005f. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Xiaotong Cui^{1

2}, Yuxin Xie^{1

2}, Siyu Wan^{1

2}, Zhonggang Liu^{1

2}, Zheng Guo^{1

2}, Xingjiu Huang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China. zhgliu@ahu.edu.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Materials of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, P. R. China.
³ Key Laboratory of Environmental Optics and Technology, and Environmental Materials and Pollution Control Laboratory, Institute of Solid State Physics, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, P. R. China.

PMID: 40613219
DOI: 10.1039/d5cc03005f

Abstract

An Ag nanoclusters (AgNCs)@UiO-66(Zr) assembly within a micropipette forms a confined nanochannel-based electrochemical platform for the sensitive detection of H₂S released from T bacteria. It exhibits excellent performance in a broad concentration range (0.1 nM to 100 μM) and achieves a low detection limit of 0.1 nM, facilitated by the specific recognition between Ag and sulfide ions.