Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 348, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2021.130662
Keywords
Kavach; Hexavalent chromium; Fluorometric sensing; TDDFT; Molecular docking
Funding
- DST-SERB Science and Engineering Research Board [EEQ/2018/000747]
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The handheld fluorometric probe 'Kavach' is designed for monitoring hexavalent chromium in industrial wastewater and living systems. It utilizes carbon dot decorated boehmite nanostructure for rapid and sensitive detection of chromium contamination. The probe shows excellent selectivity and stability in different pH and water qualities, making it a potential sensing tool for on-site low-cost detection.
This work reports a handheld fluorometric probe, namely 'Kavach' for monitoring hexavalent chromium in industrial wastewater and living systems. Kavach is capable to detect chromium contamination in a rapid and facile way. The device is made of a thin layer (-1 mm) of carbon dot decorated boehmite nanostructure (BH@CD) incorporated in a layer of poly vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP) membrane. The doped membrane has an excellent blue fluorescence upon UV excitation (355 nm) and alters its fluorescence level when exposed to Cr(VI). In reality, tiny carbon dots leach out from the nano-matrices to produce secondary contamination. Incorporation of the BH@CD into the polymeric matrix of PVDF-HFP significantly reduces such contamination and makes this material a potential sensing probe. This photoinduced electron transfer (PET) based sensor is tremendously selective and sensitive (LOD -66 nM) towards aqueous chromium. The performance of the probe remains unaltered in different pH and water qualities. Additionally, this material can sense chromium in living cells, which has been validated theoretically using molecular docking and observed experimentally using fluorescence microscopy. Kavach is truly a handheld, reusable and non-invasive sensing probe against Cr(VI), which can be employed for on-site low-cost detection.
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