Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7229886 | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 2018 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
The present work reports the interaction of various vitamin B6 cofactors with the red emitting glutathione stabilized copper nanoclusters (GSH-CuNCs). Addition of pyridoxamine (PM) resulted a new turn-on band at 410 nm due to the possible adsorption over the surface of GSH-CuNCs. The nano-assembly PM-GSH-CuNCs was applied for the selective detection of nitro-aromatic compounds. Upon addition of picric acid (PA), the fluorescence of PM-GSH-CuNCs was selectively quenched at 410 nm and ~ 625 nm among the other tested nitro-aromatic compounds. With a linearity range from 9.9 μM to 43 μM, the concentration of PA can be detected down to 2.74 μM. The high selectivity exhibited by the nano-assembly allows to detect PA in real samples like tap water, river water and matchstick. Advantageously, the nano-assembly PM-GSH-CuNCs was chemically adsorbed over the cellulosic strips and applied for the naked-eye detection of PA down to 1 μM.
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Authors
Ravi Patel, Shilpa Bothra, Rajender Kumar, Guido Crisponi, Suban K. Sahoo,