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NANO LETTERS
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 3214-3220Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00725
Keywords
Catalysis; antioxidation; carbon dots; nanozymes; biosensors
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21522505]
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A long-standing challenge in nanozyme catalysis is low activity at physiological pH, especially for oxidase- and peroxidase-mimicking nanozymes. We herein communicate that Mn(II) can promote catalysis at neutral pH for carbon dots (C-dots) as a photo-oxidase nanozyme. The C-dots produce singlet oxygen upon light irradiation to oxidize Mn(II) to Mn(III), which is confirmed by a suite of spectroscopic evidence. The in situ produced Mn(III) acts as a mediator, analogous to mediators in electrochemistry to enhance electron transfer. None of the other divalent metal ions show such an effect, allowing the selective detection of Mn(II) down to 5 nM. EDTA further enhances the activity by stabilizing the highly active Mn(III), producing an intense blue color by oxidizing 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) in just 10 s. Finally, this reaction was used to evaluate antioxidants. With this method, more analytical and biomedical applications of nanozymes can be exploited at neutral pH, and it may inspire other strategies to overcome the pH limitation in nanozyme catalysis.
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