Miscanthus grass-derived carbon dots to selectively detect Fe³⁺ ions.

ABSTRACT: Novel fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) were synthesized using an economically feasible and green one-step heating process. Miscanthus, a perennial grass and an inexpensive sustainable biomass, was utilized as the starting material to prepare CDs and doped CDs (nitrogen, phosphorous and nitrogen-phosphorous dual doped). The abundance of oxygen-containing functional groups in Miscanthus-derived CDs (MCD) and doped MCD was confirmed via Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). The average size of MCD, N-doped MCD, P-doped MCD and dual-doped MCDs was found to be 7.87 ± 0.27, 4.6 ± 0.21, 6.7 ± 0.38 and 5.3 ± 0.32 nm, respectively. The synthesized MCD and doped MCD exhibited a quantum yield (QY) of 4.71, 11.65, 2.33 and 9.63% for the MCD

SUBMITTER: Picard M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9061809 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature