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In our work, N-doped carbon dots (CDs) were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method with fermented rice as the carbon source. The CDs show bright blue fluorescence, and the maximum emission wavelength was 380 nm with wavelength ranges from 320 to 560 nm. Interestingly, these as-prepared CDs show strong blue photoluminescent properties under the radiation with ultraviolet (UV) light. Moreover, it also exhibits good sensitive fluorescence detection for Fe3+ ions; the detection limit is 0.1 μM, which is significant fluorescence quenching based on CDs. Other representative metal ions were further tested to verify their selectivity, which provides a solid underpinning for the practical use in Fe3+ions detection in real samples, e.g. underground water. In addition, the CDs work well as a fluorescent ink and can encrypt and store information.
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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21904014), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20190928), the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (20KJB150029, 19KJB150003), the Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces (201824), the Technology Research Foundation of Changzhou University (ZMF17020038), and the Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology (BM2012110). Y. C. is deeply grateful to Prof. Shuyan Gao for her very helpful suggestions and careful academic and English editing of the manuscript.
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Chen, Y., Shan, X., Jiang, D. et al. One-step Hydrothermal Synthesis of N-doped Fluorescent Carbon Dots from Fermented Rice with Highly Selective Characteristics for Label-free Detection of Fe3+ Ions and as Fluorescent Ink. ANAL. SCI. 37, 1227–1234 (2021). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.20P433
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