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Green Synthesis of Dual Emission Nitrogen-Rich Carbon Dot and Its Use in Ag+ Ion and EDTA Sensing
School of Chemical Engineering, University of Ulsan, 93 Daehak-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan, 44610, Korea
shhur@ulsan.ac.kr
Korean Chemical Engineering Research, August 2023, 61(3), 463-471(9), 10.9713/kcer.2023.61.3.463 Epub 31 August 2023
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Abstract
Nitrogen-rich carbon dots (NDots) were synthesized by using uric acid as carbon and nitrogen sources.
The as-synthesized NDots showed strong dual emissions at 420 nm and 510 nm with excitation at 350 nm and 460
nm, respectively. The physicochemical analyses such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Transmission electron
microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to analyze the chemical, physical and
morphological structures of NDots. The as-synthesized NDots exhibited wide linear range (0-100 µM) and very low
detection limit (124 nM) in Ag+
ion sensing. In addition, Ag+
saturated NDots could be used as an EDTA sensor by
the EDTA induced PL recovery.
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27. Edison, T. N. J. I., Atchudan, R., Shim, J. J., Kalimuthu, S., Ahn,B. C. and Lee, Y. R., “Turn-off Fluorescence Sensor for the Detection of Ferric Ion in Water Using Green Synthesized N-doped Carbon Dots and its Bio-imaging,” J. Photochem. Photobiol. B:Biol., 158, 235-242(2016).
28. Wei, W., Xu, C., Wu, L., Wang, J., Ren, J. and Qu, X., “NonEnzymatic-Browning-Reaction: A Versatile Route for Production of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots with Tunable Multicolor Luminescent Display,” Sci. Rep., 4, 3564(2014).
29. Yang, Z., Xu, M., Liu, Y., He, F., Gao, F., Su, Y., Wei, H. and Zhang, Y., “Nitrogen-doped, Carbon-rich, Highly Photoluminescent Carbon Dots from Ammonium Citrate,” Nanoscale, 6(3),1890-1895(2014).
30. Yan, F., Zou, Y., Wang, M., Mu, X., Yang, N. and Chen, L., “Highly Photoluminescent Carbon Dots-based Fluorescent Chemosensors for Sensitive and Selective Detection of Mercury Ions and Application of Imaging in Living Cells,” Sens. Actuators B:Chem., 192, 488-495(2014).
31. Hrbáč, J., Sichertová, D., Bancı́ řová, M., Lasovský, J., Papadopoulos, K. and Nikokavouras, J., “Sensitized Chemiluminescence
in Micellar Mixtures of Phthalhydrazide and Selected Dyes,” J.Photochem. Photobiol. A., 167(2-3), 169-175(2004).
32. Zhang, R. and Chen, W., “Nitrogen-doped Carbon Quantum Dots:Facile Synthesis and Application as a “turn-off” Fluorescent Probe
for Detection of Hg2+ Ions,” Biosens. Bioelectron., 55, 83-90(2014).
33. Sharifi, T., Nitze, F., Barzegar, H. R., Tai, C. W., Mazurkiewicz,M., Malolepszy, A., Stobinski, L. and Wågberg, T., “Nitrogen
Doped Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes Produced by CVD-correlating XPS and Raman Spectroscopy for the Study of Nitrogen Inclusion,” Carbon, 50(10), 3535-3541(2012).
34. Vasuki, G. and Selvaraju, R., “Growth and Characterization of Uric Acid Crystals,” Int. J. Sci. Res., 3(8), 696-699(2014).
35. Xu, Y., Wu, M., Liu, Y., Feng, X. Z., Yin, X. B., He, X. W. and Zhang, Y. K., “Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots: A Facile and General Preparation Method, Photoluminescence Investigation, and Imaging Applications,” Chem. - Eur. J., 19(7), 2276-2283(2013).
36. Dong, Y., Pang, H., Yang, H. B., Guo, C., Shao, J., Chi, Y., Li,C. M. and Yu, T., “Carbon-Based Dots Co-doped with Nitrogen and Sulfur for High Quantum Yield and Excitation-Independent Emission,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52(30), 7800-7804(2013).
37. Wu, G., Feng, M. and Zhan, H., “Generation of Nitrogen-doped Photoluminescent Carbonaceous Nanodots via the Hydrothermal
Treatment of Fish Scales for the Detection of Hypochlorite,”RSC Adv., 5(55), 44636-44641(2015).
38. Tabaraki, R., Nateghi, A., “Nitrogen- Doped Graphene Quantum Dots: “Turn-off” Fluorescent Probe for Detection of Ag+ Ions,”
J. Fluoresc., 26(1), 297-305(2016).
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