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Reductive carbon dots for reduction, ratiometric fluorescence determination, and intracellular imaging of Au 3 .
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Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy [Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc] 2024 Nov 15; Vol. 321, pp. 124724. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 25. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Many studies show that ortho-phenylenediamine (OPD) produces an oxidized fluorescent product when exposed to an oxidizing agent that enables the direct or indirect fluorescence detection of a range chemical and biochemical analytes. However, there is no report on this unique optical behavior for other two isomers of phenylenediamine. This study demonstrates that a simple hydrothermal treatment of para-phenylenediamine (PPD) in the presence of sulfuric acid results in the formation of fluorescent N, S-doped carbon dots (CDs) with triple functionalities including the reduction of Au <superscript>3+</superscript> into gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), the stabilization of the produced AuNPs, and the determination of Au <superscript>3+</superscript> concentration through an intrinsic ratiometric fluorescence signal. In the presence of Au <superscript>3+</superscript> , the blue emission of CDs at 437 nm quenched, and a green emission at 540 nm emerged. The linear concentration range for the determination of Au <superscript>3+</superscript> was 20 nM-16 µM with a detection limit of 16 nM. Additionally, the dual emissive CDs-AuNPs hybrid probe showed potential for the indirect fluorescence ratiometric determination of cysteine and sulfide ions. The linear concentration range for cysteine and sulfide ions were 0.25-8 μM and 0.1-6 μΜ, with detection limits of 0.095 μM and 0.041 μM, respectively. Accordingly, CDs were applied to detect Au <superscript>3+</superscript> and S <superscript>2-</superscript> in real water samples. Moreover, the synthesized CDs showed no cytotoxicity for HeLa cells up to 300 µg mL <superscript>-1</superscript> , as determined by the MTT assay. Therefore, their potential for intracellular imaging of Au <superscript>3+</superscript> in living cells was also investigated.<br />Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.<br /> (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-3557
- Volume :
- 321
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38941755
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.124724