Abstract

This work reports the development of a field-deployable and fully handheld fluorometer for environmental water monitoring. Our developed fluorimeter can detect both green algae and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) while simultaneously differentiating and measuring two different species by selectively measuring chlorophyll a fluorescence from green algae and phycocyanin fluorescence from blue-green algae. As a demonstration, chlorophyll a and phycocyanin photopigments were estimated and differentiated. The system was also tested with an environmental water sample collected from a lake to validate the system functionality. The presented results suggest that our developed fluorimeter could be used as a portable water quality monitoring system for detection of different photopigment of algae.

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Title
A field-deployable and handheld fluorometer for environmental water quality monitoring
Author
Young-Ho, Shin 1 ; Gutierrez-Wing, M Teresa 2 ; Jin-Woo, Choi 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 
2  Aquatic Germplasm and Genetic Resources Center, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 
3  School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 
Pages
1-6
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Dec 2018
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
e-ISSN
22139621
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40486-018-0078-x
ProQuest document ID
2158146521
Copyright
Micro and Nano Systems Letters is a copyright of Springer, (2018). All Rights Reserved., © 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.