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中国物理学会期刊

基于光纤微型传感器的水-葡萄糖扩散系数测量

Measurement of the Water-Glucose Diffusion Coefficient via a Fiber-Integrated Plasmonic Microsensor

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  • 水和葡萄糖作为两种生命活动的关键参与者,在体液稳态维持和能量代谢中发挥着不可替代的作用,因此,研究它们之间的扩散过程对于理解生命过程及发展相关技术至关重要。为精确监测水-葡萄糖扩散过程并测量扩散系数,本文使用一个具备高时空分辨率和高折射率灵敏度的光纤微型传感器对扩散过程进行原位监测。基于该传感器,在1 h和~15 mm的时空范围内,以~15.3 μm的空间分辨率测量了水-20%葡萄糖溶液和水-15%葡萄糖溶液体系的扩散过程中的葡萄糖浓度时空演化过程。实验结果表明扩散过程遵循菲克扩散定律,并基于菲克扩散模型计算得到它们的扩散系数分别为6.33×10-10 m2/s和6.83×10-10 m2/s。该方法操作简单,具备在大时空范围内以高空间分辨率监测扩散过程的能力,为液体扩散研究提供有效的技术路径。

     

    Water and glucose, as two essential species involved in physiological processes, play indispensable roles in maintaining body fluid homeostasis and energy metabolism. Therefore, investigating their mutual-diffusion process is of great significance for understanding physiological processes and developing related technologies. Here, a fiber-integrated plasmonic microsensor, with high space-time resolution and high refractive index (RI) sensitivity, is proposed for in situ monitoring the water-glucose diffusion process and determining the diffusion coefficient. The sensor is a spiral-grating tapered gold tip integrated on the end face of an optical fiber. Benefiting from its compact size of ~14×10×10 μm3 and high RI sensitivity of ~258.19 nm/RIU, it enables high-precision detection of glucose concentration in microscopic regions. Therefore, the spatial distribution of glucose concentration in the liquid can be obtained by scanning this sensor and measuring the concentration point by point. By repeatedly scanning this microsensor in diffusing liquids, the glucose concentration space-time evolution for the diffusion processes between water and glucose solutions at concentrations of 20% and 15% has been measured, in a time range of 1 h, and a space range of ~15 mm with a space resolution of ~15.3 μm. The experimental results show that the diffusion processes follow Fick’s law, and the corresponding diffusion coefficients are determined to be 6.33×10-10 m2/s and 6.83×10-10 m2/s, respectively, based on the Fickian diffusion model. The results confirm that the diffusion coefficient is smaller for the diffusion system with higher glucose concentration, consistent with existing literature. This method can be used for monitoring the diffusion process with large space-time range, high spatial resolution, and easy operation performance, thereby providing an effective and high-performance scheme for investigating liquid diffusion.

     

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