Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 202, Issue -, Pages 631-637Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2014.05.123
Keywords
Fluorescence; Probe; Silver nanoclusters; Fe3+
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21175086, 21175087]
- Shanxi Scholarship Council of China [52801007]
- Shanxi Province Hundred Talent Project Support
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Glutathione capped silver nanoclusters ( GSH@Ag NCs) were prepared by facile sonachemical method in aqueous solution. A new GSH@Ag NCs fluorescent probe for the detection of Fe3+ has been designed based on the significant fluorescence quenching of GSH@Ag NCs. The response to Fe3+ allows for a linear dynamic range from 5 x 10(-7) mol/L to 2 x 10(-5) mol/L with a detection limit of 1.2 x 10(-7) mol/L. The other common metal ions did not cause interference. Moreover, the proposed method was applied to the detection of serum iron contents in human serum samples and the recoveries were 84.12-101.70%. In addition, an interesting fluorescence signal off-on phenomena of the Ag NCs probe was observed. The fluorescence of the Ag NCs probe could be switched off with addition of Fe3+ solution and on in the presence of EDTA solution because of the competition for Fe3+. This property enables the probe to be possible for constructing practicable and reusable sensor. All above features indicated that functionalized silver nanoclusters-based fluorescent probe as sensing platform hold great potential for applications in biological and analytical detection. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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