A facile and total water-soluble fluorescent organic nanoparticles-based sensor for Hg2+ detection and its application in tea samples

In this study, a novel FONs-based sensor P-M(w) was synthesized using 1-Pyrenecarboxaldehyde and L-methionine through facile hydrothermal strategy. The fluorescence emission peaks of the acquired P-M (w) would show specific changes after the addition of Hg2+ due to interfering the PET process and inducing nano-structure conformational rigidification of P-M(w). Notably, the water-soluble FONs-based sensor was firstly used to detect Hg2+ in tea samples providing a new material choice for the fluorescence sensor construction of metal ion detection. Besides, the qualitative and quantitative analysis of Hg2+ could be carried out with P-M (w) at a very low concentration (1 mu g/mL) meaning that the acquired PM(w) synthesized by few grams of reactants may satisfy the detection of approximate fifty thousand samples. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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A novel FONs-based sensor P-M(w) was successfully synthesized for detecting Hg2+, showing potential applications in tea samples and capable of qualitative and quantitative analysis.