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N-doped carbon nanospheres as selective fluorescent probes for mercury detection in contaminated aqueous media: chemistry, fluorescence probing, cell line patterning, and liver tissue interaction
Abstract
A precise nano-scale biosensor was developed here to detect Hg2+ in aqueous media. Nitrogen-doped carbon nanospheres (NCS) created from the pyrolysis of melamine–formaldehyde resin were characterized by FESEM, XRD, Raman spectra, EDS, PL, UV–vis spectra, and N2 adsorption–desorption, and were used as a highly selective and sensitive probe for detecting Hg2+ in aqueous media. The sensitivity of NCS to Hg2+ was evaluated by photoluminescence intensity fluctuations under fluorescence emission in the vicinity of 390 nm with a λexc of 350 nm. The fluorescence intensity of the NCS probe weakened in the presence of Hg2+ owing to the effective fluorescence quenching by that, which is not corresponding to the special covalent liking between the ligand and the metal. The effects of the fluorescence nanoprobe concentration, pH, and sensing time were monitored to acquire the best conditions for determining Hg2+. Surprisingly, NCS revealed excellent selectivity and sensitivity towards Hg2+ in the samples containing Co2+, Na+, K+, Fe2+, Mn2+, Al3+, Pb2+, Ni2+, Ca2+, Cu2+, Mg2+, Cd2+, Cr3+, Li+, Cs+, and Ba2+. The fluorescence response was linearly proportional to Hg2+ concentration in 0.013–0.046 µM with a limit of detection of 9.58 nM. The in vitro and in vivo toxicological analyses confirmed the completely safe and biocompatible features of NCS, which provides promise for use for water, fruit, vegetable, and/or other forms of natural-connected materials exposed to Hg2+, with no significant toxicity noticed toward different cells/organs/tissues.
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Soheil Sojdeh
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Ali Banitalebi Dehkordi
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Alireza Badiei
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Ali Zarrabi
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Pooyan Makvandi
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Milad Ashrafizadeh
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Eder C. Lima
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Mohammad Rabiee
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Mohsen Asadnia
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Thomas J. Webster
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Navid Rabiee
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
no. 30,
pages 40327 - 40339,
ISSN: 0944-1344 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2023
- Bibliographic description:
- Sojdeh S., Banitalebi Dehkordi A., Badiei A., Zarrabi A., Makvandi P., Ashrafizadeh M., Saeb M., Lima E. C., Rabiee M., Asadnia M., Webster T. J., Rabiee N.: N-doped carbon nanospheres as selective fluorescent probes for mercury detection in contaminated aqueous media: chemistry, fluorescence probing, cell line patterning, and liver tissue interaction// ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH -Vol. 30,iss. 14 (2023), s.40327-40339
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/s11356-022-25068-0
- Sources of funding:
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- Free publication
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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