Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 52, Pages 16135-16140Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la404270w
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [21275027, 21235001, 21075013]
- Program of New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-11-0071]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [N110705002, N110405005, N110805001]
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Carbon dots (C-dots) have been proven to show the capability for direct reduction of Ag+ to elemental silver (Ag-0) without additional reducing agent or external photoirradiation by incubating Ag+ with C-dots for 5 min in a water bath at 50 degrees C. Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) are simultaneously formed with an average size of 3.1 +/- 1.5 nm and grew on carbon dots. This process involves the oxidation of amine or phenol hydroxyl groups on the aromatic ring of Cdots. Meanwhile C-dots protect and stabilize the Ag-NPs from aggregation in aqueous medium; that is, the Ag-NPs are stable at least for 45 days in aqueous medium. The formed Ag-NPs cause significant resonance light scattering (RLS), which correlates closely with the concentration of silver cation, and this facilitates quantitative detection of silver in aqueous medium.
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