A Continuously Tunable Full-Color Emission Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots and for Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Detection of Ascorbic Acid
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Chemicals and Reagents
2.2. Synthesis of F-NCDs
2.3. Characterization of F-NCDs
2.4. Detection of AA
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Characterization of F-NCDs
3.2. Optical Characteristics of F-NCDs
3.3. Full-Color Emission Mechanism of F-NCDs
3.4. Application of F-NCDs
3.4.1. Stability of F-NCDs
3.4.2. Detection of Ascorbic Acid (AA)
3.4.3. Mechanism for Ascorbic Acid (AA) Detection
3.4.4. Detection of Ascorbic Acid (AA) in Bovine Serum
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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λex/nm | λem/nm | △λ/nm | Fluorescence Intensity | x | y |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
325 | 452 | 127 | 795 | 0.1533 | 0.1425 |
345 | 455 | 110 | 642 | 0.1533 | 0.1487 |
365 | 466 | 101 | 431 | 0.1662 | 0.2165 |
385 | 505 | 120 | 216 | 0.1995 | 0.3590 |
405 | 517 | 112 | 227 | 0.2287 | 0.4705 |
425 | 520 | 95 | 171 | 0.2370 | 0.4819 |
445 | 523 | 78 | 109 | 0.2537 | 0.5324 |
465 | 526 | 61 | 49 | 0.3203 | 0.5905 |
485 | 593 | 108 | 31 | 0.4242 | 0.5591 |
505 | 598 | 93 | 46 | 0.4880 | 0.5069 |
525 | 599 | 74 | 85 | 0.5449 | 0.4537 |
545 | 600 | 55 | 174 | 0.5920 | 0.4074 |
565 | 601 | 36 | 317 | 0.6192 | 0.3803 |
585 | 602 | 17 | 600 | 0.6584 | 0.3413 |
Materials Used | Method | Method APPLIED | linear Range (μmol/L) | LODs (μmol/L) | Ref. |
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acriflavine | spectrofluorometric method | fluorometric | 11,400~56,800 | 454 | [34] |
PAP/ZrO2NPs/CNTs/GCE | voltammetric | electrode | 1~295 | 0.35 | [35] |
boron doped diamond | voltammetric | electrode | 18.5~370 | 5.4 | [36] |
CoTMPyP/Sr2Nb3O10 nanocomposite | voltammetric | electrode | 50~3250 | 10.6 | [37] |
Carbon dots | spectrofluorometric method | fluorometric | 5~50 | 3.2 | [38] |
Carbon dots | on-off-on | fluorometric | 0~200 | 0.35 | [39] |
Carbon dots | on-off-on | fluorometric | 5~350 | 3.11 | [40] |
Carbon dots | spectrofluorometric method | fluorometric | 0~1000 | 0.026 | This work |
No. | Found (μmol/L) | Added (μmol/L) | Theoretical value(μmol/L) | Measured Value (μmol/L) | Recovery (%) | RSD (%, n = 3) |
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1 | 42.28 | 20 | 62.28 | 63.24 | 101.54 | 2.1 |
2 | 30 | 72.28 | 72.20 | 99.89 | 0.5 | |
3 | 40 | 82.28 | 82.63 | 100.43 | 1.1 |
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Huang, D.; Qi, H.; Jing, J.; Sami, R.; Jing, T.; Alsufyani, S.J.; Benajiba, N.; Madkhali, N. A Continuously Tunable Full-Color Emission Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots and for Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Detection of Ascorbic Acid. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 693. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12040693
Huang D, Qi H, Jing J, Sami R, Jing T, Alsufyani SJ, Benajiba N, Madkhali N. A Continuously Tunable Full-Color Emission Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots and for Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Detection of Ascorbic Acid. Nanomaterials. 2022; 12(4):693. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12040693
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuang, Demin, Haiyan Qi, Jing Jing, Rokayya Sami, Tao Jing, Sultan J. Alsufyani, Nada Benajiba, and Nawal Madkhali. 2022. "A Continuously Tunable Full-Color Emission Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots and for Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective Detection of Ascorbic Acid" Nanomaterials 12, no. 4: 693. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12040693