Journal
TALANTA
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages 106-113Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2016.01.028
Keywords
Copper nanoparticles; D-penicillamine; Fluorescence; Mercury ion; Chemical sensors
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21273174]
- Municipal Science Foundation of Chongqing City [CSTC-2013jjB00002]
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Mercury ion is one of the most hazardous metal pollutants that can cause deleterious effects on human health and the environment even at low concentrations. It is necessary to develop new mercury detection methods with high sensitivity, specificity and rapidity. In this study, a novel and green strategy for synthesizing D-penicillamine-capped copper nanoparticles (DPA-CuNPs) was successfully established by a chemical reduction method, in which D-penicillamine and ascorbic acid were used as stabilizing agent and reducing agent, respectively. The as-prepared DPA-CuNPs showed strong red fluorescence and had a large Stoke's shift (270 nm). Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry were utilized to elucidate the possible fluorescence mechanism, which could be aggregation-induced emission effect. Based on the phenomenon that trace mercury ion can disperse the aggregated DPA-CuNPs, resulting in great fluorescence quench of the system, a sensitive and selective assay for mercury ion in aqueous solution with the DPA-CuNPs was developed. Under optimum conditions, this assay can be applied to the quantification of Hg2+ in the 1.0-30 mu M concentration range and the detection limit (3 sigma/slope) is 32 nM. The method was successfully applied to determine Hg2+ in real water samples. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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