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Original Articles

Acetic acid derived carbon dots as efficient pH and bio-molecule sensor

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Pages 506-512 | Received 11 Jul 2019, Accepted 16 Sep 2019, Published online: 01 Oct 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Greenish yellow emitting carbon dots are prepared from acetic acid through a one pot synthesis. The dots are characterised using TEM, XRD, FTIR, UV–visible absorbance spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and Raman spectral analysis. The system could continuously monitor the pH as a function of luminescence over a wide range (2–12), and exhibited linear dependence of luminescence with the former parameter. In addition, the fluorescence of the system is also exploited for the sensing of one of the significant bio-molecule, folic acid with a detection limit of 0.72 µM.

Acknowledgments

Authors gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance received from Kerala government, the facilities received from the Department of chemistry, University of Calicut, STIC CUSAT for providing the TEM data.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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