Analytical Sciences


Abstract − Analytical Sciences, 35(2), 147 (2019).

Green Synthesis of Blue Fluorescent P-doped Carbon Dots for the Selective Determination of Picric Acid in an Aqueous Medium
Yan Jun JU, Na LI, Shi Gang LIU, Yu Zhu FAN, Yu LING, Na XIAO, Hong Qun LUO, and Nian Bing LI
Key Laboratory of Eco-Environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P. R. China
A fluorescence method for the determination of picric acid (PA) using phosphorus-doped carbon dots (P-CDs), synthesized from β-cyclodextrin and sodium pyrophosphate, is described. The P-CDs are very uniform and monodisperse with a diameter of about 2.8 nm. Under an excitation of 350 nm, the P-CDs emit bright blue fluorescence with an emission peak at 440 nm. The as-synthesized P-CDs serve as a sensitive, selective, and label-free fluorescent probe for the detection of PA. Based on an inner filter effect between PA and P-CDs, a linear response is obtained for PA from 0.1 to 10 μM with a detection limit of 82 nM. Finally, this sensing system has been demonstrated to have practicability for PA detection in the environmental water samples.