Green Emission Carbon Nanodots as Fluorescence Turn-on Probe for Detecting Picolinic Acid
A new strategy for the determination of picolinic acid ( PLA ) is developed by utilizing green-emissive boron and nitrogen co-doped carbon nanodots ( BNCNDs ) and Cu 2+ ion. Hydroquinone, uric acid and boric acid act as carbon, nitrogen and boron sources for BNCNDs synthesis, respectively. Interesti...
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Published in | Journal of analytical chemistry (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 76; no. 8; pp. 920 - 929 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Moscow
Pleiades Publishing
01.08.2021
Springer Springer Nature B.V |
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Summary: | A new strategy for the determination of picolinic acid (
PLA
) is developed by utilizing green-emissive boron and nitrogen co-doped carbon nanodots (
BNCNDs
) and Cu
2+
ion. Hydroquinone, uric acid and boric acid act as carbon, nitrogen and boron sources for BNCNDs synthesis, respectively. Interestingly, the green emission of BNCNDs is quenched in the presence of Cu
2+
by electron transfer. Upon addition of the specific reagent (
PLA
), Cu
2+
ion is removed from the surface of BNCNDs owing to the formation of a strong complex between PLA and Cu
2+
ion, which leads to a significant fluorescence recovery of BNCNDs. The “turn-on” phenomenon allows to determine PLA by a very simple method. This chemosensing method displays a linear range from 50 nM to 80 μM with a detection limit of 14 nM (3σ/
k
) for PLA. The method was applied to the determination of PLA in fetal bovine serum samples with the recoveries between 94 and 106%, which shows that this method has potential for use in applications to real samples. |
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ISSN: | 1061-9348 1608-3199 |
DOI: | 10.1134/S1061934821080037 |