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ANALYTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 643-647Publisher
JAPAN SOC ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.2116/analsci.27.643
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20775010, 21075011, 21003014]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [09JJ3016, 10JJ5002]
- Foundation of Science and Technology Agency of Hunan Province of China [2009WK4005, 2009FJ3173, 2010FJ3167]
- Foundation of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Protection for Electric Power and Transportation of China [2011CL05]
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China [NCET-10-0138]
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Quantum dots (QDs) have become one of the most attractive fields of current research because of their unique optical properties. Novel copper-sensitive fluorescent fluoroionophores based on CdSe/CdS core/shell QDs modified with a polymer of MAO-mPEG were synthesized and characterized in the present work. A pH of 6.47 was optimally selected for measurements. By modifying QDs with MAO-mPEG, significant aqueous fluorescence quenching was observed upon binding with copper ions involving both reduced and oxidized environments, indicating great sensitivity and specificity for copper-ion sensing. No significant interfering effects from other metal ions, such as Ag+, Al3+, Ba2+, Ca2+, Cd2+, Co2+, Cr3+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Hg2+, K+, Mg2+, Mn2+, Na+, Ni2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, and Zn2+, were observed. The linear response range for Cu2+ was found to be 0.01 - 0.50 mu M, and the limit of detection was evaluated to be 16 nM. The proposed method demonstrated improved sensitivity and selectivity characteristics for Cu(II) determinations based on CdSe/CdS core/shell QDs modified with MAO-mPEG by using a typical liquid-phase quenching assay, showing its potential application to multiplex sensing of different analytes through distinct ligand conjugation and functionalization of individual fluorophores.
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