Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots Encapsulated a Polyoxomolybdate-Based Coordination Polymer as a Sensitive Platform for Trace Tetracycline Determination in Water

Zhang, Yanqiu; Sun, Minrui; Lu, Yang; Peng, Mingguo; Du, Erdeng; Xu, Xia

doi:10.3390/nano13192676

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Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots Encapsulated a Polyoxomolybdate-Based Coordination Polymer as a Sensitive Platform for Trace Tetracycline Determination in Water

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Yanqiu Zhang

^1,2,*,

Minrui Sun

¹,

Yang Lu

¹,

Mingguo Peng

^2,*,

Erdeng Du

² and

Xia Xu

²

¹

School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China

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School of Urban Construction, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China

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Nanomaterials 2023, 13(19), 2676; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13192676

Submission received: 31 August 2023 / Revised: 28 September 2023 / Accepted: 28 September 2023 / Published: 29 September 2023

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Nanoscience and Nanotechnology)

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The requirement of simple, efficient and accurate detection of tetracycline (TC) in water environments poses new challenges for sensing platform development. Here, we report a simple method for TC sensing via fluorescence detection based on metal–organic coordination polymers (MOCPs, (4-Hap)₄(Mo₈O₂₆)) coated with nitrogen-doped carbon dots (NCDs). These NCDs@(4-Hap)₄(Mo₈O₂₆) composites showed excellent luminescence features of NCDs with stable bright-blue emission under UV light. The results of the sensing experiment showed that the fluorescence of NCDs@(4-Hap)₄(Mo₈O₂₆) can be quenched by TC (166 µM) with 94.1% quenching efficiency via the inner filter effect (IFE) in a short time (10 s), with a detection limit (LOD) of 33.9 nM in a linear range of 8–107 µM. More significantly, NCDs@(4-Hap)₄(Mo₈O₂₆) showed a high selectivity for TC sensing in the presence of anions and metal cations commonly found in water environments and can be reused in at least six cycles after washing with alcohol. The potential practicality of NCDs@(4-Hap)₄(Mo₈O₂₆) was verified by sensing TC in real water samples with the standard addition method, and satisfactory recoveries from 91.95% to 104.72% were obtained.

Keywords: tetracycline; fluorescent sensing; metal–organic coordination polymer; nitrogen-doped carbon

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Zhang, Y.; Sun, M.; Lu, Y.; Peng, M.; Du, E.; Xu, X. Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots Encapsulated a Polyoxomolybdate-Based Coordination Polymer as a Sensitive Platform for Trace Tetracycline Determination in Water. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 2676. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13192676

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Zhang Y, Sun M, Lu Y, Peng M, Du E, Xu X. Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots Encapsulated a Polyoxomolybdate-Based Coordination Polymer as a Sensitive Platform for Trace Tetracycline Determination in Water. Nanomaterials. 2023; 13(19):2676. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13192676

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Zhang, Yanqiu, Minrui Sun, Yang Lu, Mingguo Peng, Erdeng Du, and Xia Xu. 2023. "Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots Encapsulated a Polyoxomolybdate-Based Coordination Polymer as a Sensitive Platform for Trace Tetracycline Determination in Water" Nanomaterials 13, no. 19: 2676. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13192676

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Zhang, Y., Sun, M., Lu, Y., Peng, M., Du, E., & Xu, X. (2023). Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots Encapsulated a Polyoxomolybdate-Based Coordination Polymer as a Sensitive Platform for Trace Tetracycline Determination in Water. Nanomaterials, 13(19), 2676. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13192676

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