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Application of micro-analytical
technologies for in situ
biogeochemical sensors
Dr Matt Mowlem
Ocean Technology And Engineering Group
National Oceanography Centre, UK
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Overview • Intro to our labs
• Oceanography – what we measure
– problems with these measurements
– what we are hoping to achieve in the future
• Analytical technology – Methodology
– applicability to a broad range of analytes
– Progress made using theses methods
– limitations
– ways to overcome any limitations
– new directions
• Blatant recruitment advertisement
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Research in School of Electronics
Communication Dependable Systems and Software Engineering
Electrical Power Engineering
Electronic Systems and Devices
Information Signals Images Systems
Intelligence Agents Multimedia
Nano
Optoelectronics Research Centre
Pervasive Systems Centre
Science and Engineering of Natural Systems
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Nano Group: • Electronic Materials &
Devices • Quantum Electronics • Photonic devices • MEMS & NEMS • RF Circuits • Bioelectronics
• Lead collaborator is Prof. Hywel Morgan
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Microfluidics
Miniature platforms for
chemical, molecular
and cellular analysis +
Microfabrication
Microfluidics
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NOC
• Sensors
– Chemical
– Biological
– Miniature CT-DO
• Engineering
– Vehicles
– Lake Ellsworth
• Technology
– Sterility
– Biotechnology
– Analytical sciences
• Sea level measurement systems
• Telemetry
• Landers
• Vehicles and instrumentation
• Instrumentation to measure particles and
sediments
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Overview • Intro to our labs
• Oceanography – what we measure
– problems with these measurements
– what we are hoping to achieve in the future
• Analytical technology – Methodology
– applicability to a broad range of analytes
– Progress made using theses methods
– limitations
– ways to overcome any limitations
– new directions
• Blatant recruitment advertisement
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Biogeochemistry: Global impact,
hard to measure
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Target platform: Argo – global reach and impact
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http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/index.html
Sensors must have
• low cost
• easy setup
• low buoyancy change
• low weight in water
• long-term stability
• >1 sample / 4 minutes in burst mode
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Chemical Targets
• Nutrients (uM coastal
/ deep, nM open
ocean)
• Trace metals (n -fM)
• Gases (n-uM)
• Carbonate system
(0.001 pH equiv)
• Small organics, e.g.
PCBs (f-pM)
• Proteins and large
organics (copies / L)
• Nucleic Acids (copies
/ L)
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sensors on gliders (initially in shelf seas)
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Overview • Intro to our labs
• Oceanography – what we measure
– problems with these measurements
– what we are hoping to achieve in the future
• Analytical technology – Methodology
– applicability to a broad range of analytes
– Progress made using theses methods
– limitations
– ways to overcome any limitations
– new directions
• Blatant recruitment advertisement
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Methodologies
• Optical
– Nitrate
• Optodes
– Methane
– Oxygen
– pCO2
– pH
• Electrochemistry
– Oxygen
• Lab on a chip
– Nutrients
– Trace metals
– pH, TA, DIC, pCO2
– Small organics,
e.g. PCBs
– Proteins and large
organics
– Nucleic Acids
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Methodologies Applied on LOC
• Nutrients
–Nitrate: cadmium reduction Griess
–Nitrite: Griess
–Ammonium: OPA
–Phosphate: molybdovanadophosphoric
or molybdate
–Silicate: molybdate / reduction
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Nitrate / Nitrite LOC
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State of the art operational LOC
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High temporal resolution
See Beaton et al. Env. Sci & Tech 2013
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Nutrient LOC
• Float optimisation
required!
• Nitrate LOD /
precision ≈ 20nM /
7nM
• Phosphate (yellow)
LOD ≈ 80nM / 10nM
• Phosphate (blue) LOD
≈ 10nM / < 1nM
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Iron and Manganese sensor
Research data and images by Ambra Milani
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Methodologies Applied on LOC
Trace metals
– Fe (II, III): Ferrozine, LOD ≈ 20 nM
• With chelating resin pre-concentration LOD
<1nM (Nitriloacetic acid).
– Mn (IV) : PAN, LOD ≈ 30 nM
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Methodologies Applied on LOC
• Carbonate system
– pH: Spectrophotometry with indicators e.g.
Thymol blue, MCP. Precision ≈ 0.001 pH
– TA : Spectrophotometric tracer monitored
titration with indicators e.g. BCG precision ≈
10 uM
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Applications: Carbon
observations (pH sensor)
Research and data by Victoire Rérolle
•short term precision 0.001 pH (n=20)
•accuracy within the range of a certified
Tris buffer (0.004 pH)
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Biosensing: Nucleic Acid
• Developing Generic platform for Nucleic Acid Assays
• Initially targeting RNA with Nucleic Acid Sequence Based Amplification (NASBA – above)
• Enables analysis of transcription, and species presence
• Initial target is rbcL gene (codes large subunit of Rubisco holoenzyme)
• Several species specific assays developed
• Can target toxin producing genes
Figure and work by M.N. Tsaloglou
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Figure and work by M.N. Tsaloglou
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Overview • Intro to our labs
• Oceanography – what we measure
– problems with these measurements
– what we are hoping to achieve in the future
• Analytical technology – Methodology
– applicability to a broad range of analytes
– Progress made using theses methods
– limitations
– ways to overcome any limitations
– new directions
• Blatant recruitment advertisement
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Limitations • We have tackled
– In situ calibration
– Interferences
– Cheap materials
– Cheap high
performance optics
– Pressure tolerance
– Reagent
consumption
– Time response
– Filtering / biofouling
• We are tackling
– Reagent stability
– Required user skill
– Reliability
– Low cost minauture
pumps and valves
– Highly multiplexed
systems
– Preconcentration /
ultra low LOD
– Aggressive fouling
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Development led by Ed Waugh
Pressure tolerant electronics
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Low-cost high fidelity optics
Floquet et al 2011
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Low-cost optical surface finish
Ogilvie et al 2010
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Fast measurement with precision
• Fluidics =
– Dispersion
– Reaction Kinetics
– Delay is inevitable
– High frequency possible with
dispersion compensation OR
MULTIPLE DETECTION
CHAMBERS
• Elastomer based valves and
pumps = low cost, many on
each chip
Ogilvie et al 2011
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Fast measurement with precision
• Fluidics =
– Dispersion
– Reaction Kinetics
– Delay is inevitable
– High frequency possible with
dispersion compensation OR
MULTIPLE DETECTION
CHAMBERS
• Elastomer based valves and
pumps = low cost, many on
each chip
Ogilvie et al 2011
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Advantageous Dispersion
•Dispersion enables measurement to be corrected for pH
perturbation induced by indicator
(Rerolle et al. 2012 & 2013)
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Proprietary reagent packs
Courtesy TelLab
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Preservation of reagents
Tsaloglou et al 2013
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Overview • Oceanography
– what we measure
– problems with these measurements
– what we are hoping to achieve in the future
• Analytical technology – Methodology
– applicability to a broad range of analytes
– Progress made using theses methods
– limitations
– ways to overcome any limitations
– new directions
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New Directions
• Low-power actuation of pumps / valves
• High frequency (>1Hz) measurement
• New targets, including dissolved organic
nutrients, organics and proteins
• Rugged In situ field deployed systems
• Next generation in situ nucleic acid sensors
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We are recruiting
• Head of analytical science (up to NERC band
4 approx UoS ERE 6)
• Three research / engineers (NERC 6 approx
ERE 4)
• Two electronics software engineers (NERC 6)
• One microfabrication / fabrication engineer
(NERC 6)
• PhD studentships
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements to the team past and present: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cmm/