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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 720, Issue -, Pages 70-78Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.05.242
Keywords
Graphene oxide; Quantum dots; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; Photoluminescence Fluorescence probe
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- University of Pretoria
- National Research Foundation of South Africa [90720, 93394]
- Department of Science and Technology (DST) through the Photonics Initiative of South Africa (PISA) [PISA-15-DIR-06]
- Water Research Commission (WRC) [K5/2438/1]
- Wirsam Scientific, South Africa
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Alloyed L-cysteine-capped CdSeTeS/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) have been covalently linked to graphene oxide (GO) to form a new QD-GO nanocomposite material. Transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Raman, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, FT-IR, UV/vis and fluorescence spectrophotometry were used to characterize the nanocomposite material. Covalent binding of GO to the QDs quenched the fluorescence (Switch OFF) of the QDs. The planar structure of GO and its pi electron rich surface enables the adsorption of pi rich aromatic analytes. Environmental pollutants, belonging to the class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were used as model analytes to test their affinity to adsorb onto GO via pi-pi interaction and trigger fluorescence transduction changes (switch ON) in the conjugated QDs. Our investigation showed that the affinity of the four PAH analytes tested to switch on the fluorescence of the nanocomposite probe followed the order phenanthrene > anthracene > naphthalene > pyrene. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V.All rights reserved.
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