Supporting Information Ultrasensitive and facile detection of microrna via portable pressure meter Lu Shi a, Jing Lei a, Bei Zhang a, Baoxin Li a, Chaoyong James Yang b and Yan Jin a, * a Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science of Shaanxi Province, Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi an 710119, China b State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China * Corresponding author. Tel: 86-29-81530726; Fax: 86-29-81530727; E-mail: jinyan@snnu.edu.cn S-1
Figure S1. (a) Gas pressure of MB/H 2 O 2 mixture with the prolongation of reaction time. The concentration of MBs is 0.5 mg ml -1. (b) Gas pressure of MB/H 2 O 2 mixture with the increasing of the concentration of MBs. S-2
Figure S2. (a and b) TEM images of PtNPs. (c) Pressure-change with different concentration of H2O2 at different reaction time. (d) Linear relationship between pressure value and different concentrations of PtNPs. S-3
Figure S3. Reproducibility of pressure measurements. The concentration of H 2 O 2 and PtNPs are 10 M and 8 nm. S-4
Figure S4 Influences of experimental parameters on the analytical performance: (a) Effect of the concentration of MBs, (b) Effect of reaction time between MBs and DNA H1, (c) Effect of buffer, (d) Effect of the concentration of SSC buffer. S-5
Figure S5 Influences of experimental parameters on the analytical performance: (a and b) effect of the concentration ration of H1 and H2, (c and d) effect of reaction time of SDR, (e and f) effect of reaction temperature of SDR. S-6
Table S1. Pressure change at different reaction time. Group Pressure after 3 h Pressure after 6 h Reduction in 3 h 1 72.5 kpa 70.5 kpa 2.8% 2 78.6 kpa 76.0 kpa 3.3% 3 75.7 kpa 74.1 kpa 2.1% S-7
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