Issue 13, 2021

A carbon dots functionalized paper coupled with AgNPs composites platform: application as a sensor for hydrogen peroxide detection based on surface plasmon-enhanced energy transfer

Abstract

Paper-based sensors open a new avenue to produce easy-to-handle, inexpensive and simple-use analytical devices for widespread application fields in biological systems involving diagnosis, drug discovery and biosensing. In this manuscript, we constructed a fluorescence sensor based on functionalized paper coupled with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) etching for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) determination in biological systems. A significant fluorescence signal was achieved by immobilizing CDs onto the surface of cellulose filter paper by covalent bonds. The CDs functionalized paper coupled with AgNPs composites platform (PCD/AgNPs) consisted of CDs functionalized paper (PCD) and a AgNPs layer which acted as a fluorescence quencher of CDs via a physical adsorption mechanism. With the introduction of H2O2, the AgNPs were etched accompanied by the fluorescence recovery. As the target, a good linear relationship of a fluorescence turn-on response toward H2O2 between 10 and 120 μM was obtained with a limit of detection of 1.38 μM in our sensor. The designed sensor demonstrated good specificity and would have broad application prospects in the detection of milk samples and determination of H2O2 released from cancer cells.

Graphical abstract: A carbon dots functionalized paper coupled with AgNPs composites platform: application as a sensor for hydrogen peroxide detection based on surface plasmon-enhanced energy transfer

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Nov 2020
Accepted
26 Feb 2021
First published
02 Mar 2021

New J. Chem., 2021,45, 6025-6032

A carbon dots functionalized paper coupled with AgNPs composites platform: application as a sensor for hydrogen peroxide detection based on surface plasmon-enhanced energy transfer

X. Zhang, S. Chen, S. Zhuo, Y. Ji and R. Li, New J. Chem., 2021, 45, 6025 DOI: 10.1039/D0NJ05721E

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