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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-015-3252-6
Keywords
Microwave; Nitrogen-doped carbon dots; Sensing; Serum iron; Biomedicine; Health effects
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of Jilin Province, China [20150204070GX]
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In this paper, nitrogen-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) with a quantum yield of 23.6 % were successfully synthesized by microwave pyrolysis of urea using diethylene glycol as the high boiling point reaction medium. The N-CDs were spherical and monodisperse with a size distribution between 1.5 and 5.5 nm. The N-CDs exhibited excellent water-soluble property and remarkable stability under extreme ionic strengths and light illumination. The fluorescence of the N-CDs could be quenched by Fe3+ through the static quenching mechanism, but not by other common metal ions. On this basis, the N-CDs can be used as a facile sensing platform for label-free sensitive and selective detection of Fe3+ in a linear range of 1.6-333.3 mu mol L-1, and the detection limit was 0.45 mu mol L-1 obtained at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3. Importantly, the N-CDs-based fluorescent probe was successfully applied to the direct analysis of iron contents in human serum samples, which demonstrated potential applications in biological and clinical analysis.
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