Microwave Assisted Synthesis of N-Doped Carbon Dots: an Easy, Fast and Cheap Sensor for Determination of Aspartic Acid in Sport Supplements

In this work, determination of aspartic acid by N-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) was studied at optimum condition. Characterization and morphology of surface of N-CDs were carried out by FT-IR and HRTEM. N-doped carbon dots size was 10nm. Quenching was very fast after addition of aspartic acid that is an important property of this sensor. Optimum conditions for pH and excitation wavelength were 8 and 360nm, respectively. Linear dynamic range and limit of detection for aspartic acid were 0.5-50 mu M and 90nM, respectively. This method was used for aspartic acid determination in human serum and sport supplement powder as real samples. Performance of this sensor was also compared with other fluorescent sensors.