Qihui Li, Haiying Du, Junrui Li, Jie Deng, Ruiyuan Wang, Yonglin Chen
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Abstract
Tartrazine is used as a synthetic colorant to improve the color of food. Excessive intake of tartrazine will seriously harm human health. In this paper, a green and facile one-pot hydrothermal approach is proposed for the preparation of sulfur-doped carbon quantum dots (S-CQDs) with Alternanthera philoxeroides (AP) powder and thiourea. The S-CQDs were developed as a highly sensitive “turn-off” fluorescent sensor for the detection of tartrazine. The S-CQDs displayed superior fluorescence characteristics of CQDs with a quantum yield (QY) up to 20.19%. S-CQDs exhibited the maximum fluorescence emission intensity at λem = 462 nm under excitation at λex = 390 nm. The standard curve of S-CQDs had good linearity in the range of 7.8 ~ 125 μmol/L tartrazine, and the linear correlation coefficient (R2) was 0.9983. The S-CQDs were demonstrated to selectively react with tartrazine, leading to fluorescence quenching effect, which was successfully used for the detection of tartrazine with a limit of detection at 0.45 μmol/L, which was lower than the national standard detection limit of 187.14 μmol/L. The feasibility of practical application was assessed by the detection of tartrazine in real samples.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics is an established refereed companion to the Journal of Materials Science. It publishes papers on materials and their applications in modern electronics, covering the ground between fundamental science, such as semiconductor physics, and work concerned specifically with applications. It explores the growth and preparation of new materials, as well as their processing, fabrication, bonding and encapsulation, together with the reliability, failure analysis, quality assurance and characterization related to the whole range of applications in electronics. The Journal presents papers in newly developing fields such as low dimensional structures and devices, optoelectronics including III-V compounds, glasses and linear/non-linear crystal materials and lasers, high Tc superconductors, conducting polymers, thick film materials and new contact technologies, as well as the established electronics device and circuit materials.