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Multi-optical signal channel gold nanoclusters and their application in heavy metal ions sensing arrays
- Source :
- Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9:2833-2839
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2021.
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Abstract
- To improve the performance of an array-based sensing system, a novel one-pot method was designed to prepare multi-optical signal channel gold nanoclusters (MS-AuNCs), including chemiluminescence (CL) and fluorescence (FL). And multi parameters were extracted from the CL and FL spectra of MS-AuNCs to realize the excellent performance of sensing arrays for heavy metal ion differentiation. In this synthetic strategy, 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA) was used as the capping agent to form Au(I)–thiol complexes first. Then luminol was introduced as a reductant to reduce the Au(I)–thiol complexes and as a chemiluminescent reagent to form MS-AuNCs. Compared with previous methods for preparing luminescent functionalized nanoparticles, the proposed method could obtain functionalized nanoparticles with multi-optical signal channels in one step and is much simple. The obtained MS-AuNCs exhibited excellent CL performance when reacting with hydrogen dioxide. The peak position of the MS-AuNCs FL emission spectra does not shift as increasing excitation wavelengths. The bright orange FL of MS-AuNCs was strong enough to be seen with naked eye. Based on five parameters extracted from the CL and FL spectra of MS-AuNCs, one sensing array was developed for distinguishing heavy metal ions. The sensing strategy could differentiate seven heavy metal ions with different concentrations, including Al3+, Co2+, Cr3+, Cu2+, Hg2+, Pb2+ and Zn2+. Moreover, novel multi-optical signal channel gold nanoclusters were obtained for the first time in this work, which may find more promising applications in fields such as bioassays and bioimaging.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Metal ions in aqueous solution
Analytical chemistry
02 engineering and technology
General Chemistry
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Fluorescence
0104 chemical sciences
Luminol
Nanoclusters
Metal
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
visual_art
Reagent
Materials Chemistry
visual_art.visual_art_medium
Naked eye
0210 nano-technology
Luminescence
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20507534 and 20507526
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Materials Chemistry C
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ea35d799d034f3c7b2748eee7fdf8588