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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 228, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117701
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Gold nanoparticles; Aluminium sensor; Xylenol orange; UV-visible spectroscopy; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
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Xylenol orange functionalized gold nanoparticles (XO-AuNPs), prepared by reducing HAuCl4 in presence of xylenol orange were found to be selective and sensitive for optical sensing of Al3+ in water. XO-AuNPs nanoparticles were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); the nanoparticles formed were of spherical shape and of uniform size of 3-12 nm. The interaction between Al3+ and XO-AuNPs at pH similar to 3 was studied by XPS analysis. XPS and TEM studies revealed that aggregation of XO-AuNPs in the presence of Al3+ takes place through analyte induced cross-linkage mechanism. Al3+ induced selective aggregation of the XO-AuNPs lead to a visual change in color of the colloidal solution from deep red to blue. The changes in characteristic absorption peak of XO-AuNPs were monitored; the ratio of A(550nm)/A(515nm) was used to quantify the concentration of Al3+ in water samples. The method gave a linear response from 50-300 ppb (R-2=0.985) of Al3+ in drinking water with a detection limit of 12 ppb. The proposed method did not suffer any major interference from concomitant transition metal ions and anions. The developed method was simple, rapid and useful for determination of Al3+ in drinking water samples. (c) 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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