Electrogenerated chemiluminescence from CdS nanotubes and its sensing application in aqueous solution

Electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) of CdS nanotubes in aqueous solution and its sensing application were studied by entrapping the CdS nanotubes in carbon paste electrode. Two ECL peaks were observed at −0.9 V (ECL-1) and −1.2 V (ECL-2), respectively, when the potential was cycled between 0 and −1.6 V. The electrochemically reduced nanocrystal species of CdS nanotubes could collide with the oxidized species in an annihilation process to produce the peak of ECL-1. The electron-transfer reaction between the reduced CdS nanocrystal species and oxidant coreactants such as S₂O₈²⁻, H₂O₂, and reduced dissolved oxygen led to the appearance of the ECL-2 peak. Based on the enhancing effect of H₂O₂ on ECL-2 intensity, a novel CdS ECL sensor was developed for H₂O₂ detection. The sensor exhibited a detection limit of 0.1 μM and a linear range from 0.5 μM to 0.01 mM. The relative standard deviations of five replicate determinations of 5 μM H₂O₂ was 2.6%. In addition, the ECL spectrum in aqueous solution also exhibited two peaks at 500 and 640 nm, respectively.     

基于量子点增敏化学发光同时测定尿液中的亚硝酸盐和硝酸盐

采用铜镉柱还原硝酸盐,与CdTe量子点增敏过氧亚硝酸-碳酸钠体系的化学发光信号相结合,开发了快速在线同时分析亚硝酸盐和硝酸盐的新方法.对流动注射、化学发光等实验参数条件进行优化,在Na2CO3的浓度为0.2 M、H2O2的浓度为0.03 M、Na2EDTA的浓度为1×10-3 M、CdTe量子点粒径为2.84 nm的条件下,过氧亚硝酸-碳酸钠体系可以获得最优的化学发光信号.该方法检测亚硝酸盐的线性范围为0.3~75μM,检测限可达0.12μM,其相对标准偏差为1.9%;硝酸盐的线性范围为1.0~100μM,检测限可达0.26μM,其相对标准偏差为1.5%.此方法无需衍生和分离,可以实现同时、准确、快速和高选择性地检测人体尿液中亚硝酸盐和硝酸盐的含量,回收率分别为94%~105%和96.6%~110.4%.     

Synthesis of cysteamine-coated CdTe quantum dots and its application in mercury (II) detection

High-quality cysteamine-coated CdTe quantum dots (CA-CdTe QDs) were successfully synthesized in aqueous phase by a facile one-pot method. Through hydroxylamine hydrochloride-promoted kinetic growth strategy, water-soluble CA-CdTe QDs could be obtained conveniently in a conical flask by a stepwise addition of raw materials. The photoluminescence quantum yield (PL QY) of the obtained QDs reached 9.2% at the emission peak of 520 nm. The optical property and the morphology of the QDs were characterized by UV–vis absorption spectra, photoluminescence spectra (PL) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) respectively. Furthermore, the fluorescence of the resultant QDs was quenched by copper (II) (Cu²⁺) and mercury (II) (Hg²⁺) meanwhile. It is worthy of note that to separately detect Hg²⁺, cyanide ion could be used to eliminate the interference of Cu²⁺. Under the optimal conditions, the response was linearly proportional to the logarithm of Hg²⁺ concentration over the range of 0.08–3.33 μM with a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.07 μM.     

Enhanced chemiluminescence from reactions between CdTe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots and periodate

A novel chemiluminescence (CL) performance of CdTe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) with periodate (KIO₄) was studied. Effects of concentration and pH on the CL system were investigated. Electron spin resonance (ESR) and the effects of radical scavenger analysis were employed for identification of intermediate species. The CL spectra for this system showed only one maximum emission peak centered around 620 nm, which was similar with photoluminescence (PL) spectra of CdTe/CdS/ZnS QDs. The CL of CdTe/CdS/ZnS QDs was induced by direct chemical oxidation and the possible mechanism could be explained by radiative recombination of injected holes and electrons. This investigation not only provided new sight into the optical characteristics of CdTe/CdS/ZnS QDs, but also broadened their potential optical utilizations.     

CdTe荧光量子点与苯胺之间相互作用的研究

以巯基乙酸为稳定剂在水相中合成了CdTe荧光量子点,并使之与苯胺(Aniline)耦联.通过红外光谱分析,证实CdTe荧光量子点同Aniline的耦合主要是通过量子点周围巯基乙酸的—COOH与苯胺的—NH2形成的氢键实现的.将CdTe-苯胺、CdTe-丙氨酸(Alanine)耦合物荧光光谱的强度进行对比,发现苯环的存在可以极大地增强耦合物的荧光强度.     

CdTe量子点修布电极的阳极电致化学发光

制备了CdTe量子点/Nafion修饰玻碳电极(CdTe QDs/Nafion/GCE),并研究了该修饰电极在中性磷酸盐缓冲溶液(PBS)中的电致化学发光(ECL)行为.结果表明,三丙胺(TPA)作为共反应剂存在时,QDs/Nafion/GCE在中性PBS中可以产生强的阳极电化学发光信号.考察了量子点的用量、Nafion的用量、pH、电解质等条件对ECL的影响.抗坏血酸对QDs/Nafion/GCE的ECL具有抑制作用,且抑制程度与抗坏血酸浓度呈线性关系,为利用电致化学发光法检测抗坏血酸提供了新方法.     

栀子甙对碲化镉量子点的荧光淬灭作用

以3-巯基丙酸作为稳定剂,在水溶液中合成了CdTe量子点;采用荧光光谱法初步研究了栀子甙对巯基丙酸稳定的CdTe量子点的荧光淬灭作用,考察了量子点浓度、pH、反应时间等多种因素对量子点-栀子甙体系荧光强度的影响,确定了测定栀子甙的最佳实验条件;并初步探讨了栀子甙与该量子点相互作用的可能反应机理.结果表明,在最佳实验条件下,巯基丙酸稳定的CdTe量子点对栀子甙检测的线性范围为2×10-7~4×10-6 mol/L,检出限为1.4×10-7 mol/L,相对标准偏差为0.355%;且常见的金属阳离子、糖类和氨基酸对栀子甙的测定无显著影响.总体而言,该方法可用于人体体液中栀子甙的检测,且两者的作用过程可初步推断为动态淬灭过程.     

Preparation,characterization and biocompatibility of aspartic acid modified CdTe quantum dots

This study aims at preparing water soluble aspartic acid （ASP） modified CdTe quantum dots with tunable fluorescence emission controlled by reaction time. The size of the synthesized CdTe quantum dots was evaluated using transmission electron microscope （TEM） and also calculated based on their UV-vis spectra. The optical properties of TGA-CdTe quantum dots were characterized by UV-vis and fluorescence （FL） spectroscopy. The red-shift in the UV-vis absorption and FL emission with the increase of reaction time was observed. The biocompatibility examination indicated that the ASP modified CdTe QDs had low cytotoxicity.     

CdTe量子点荧光法测定阳离子表面活性剂

合成了巯基乙酸(TGA)保护的水溶性发光CdTe量子点,并考察了此探针在阳离子表面活性剂十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(CTMAB)中的发光行为。根据观察到的发光猝灭效应,建立了一种简单的测定阳离子表面活性剂的方法。考察了CdTe量子点的浓度、体系酸度、反应时间及共存物质等对测定的影响。在最佳条件下,CdTe量子点发光强度与CTMAB的浓度分别在6×10-7~9.0×10-6mol/L和1.2×10-5~3.8×10-5mol/L范围内分段成线性关系。该方法用于水样的阳离子表面活性剂的测定,回收率为97%~102%。     

功能性CdTe量子点荧光增敏法测定盐酸多巴胺

以CdTe量子点作为荧光探针,基于荧光增敏法对盐酸多巴胺进行了定量检测,考察了缓冲溶液体系、量子点浓度、反应时间等多种因素的影响。实验结果表明,在pH7.5的0.2 mol/L Na2HPO4-NaH2PO4缓冲液中,反应时间为20 min,盐酸多巴胺浓度为1.2×10-8~1.0×10-7mol/L时,其线性回归方程为△F=-27.47+25.54c(10-8mol/L),相关系数和检测限分别为0.9992和6×10-11mol/L。该方法为盐酸多巴胺的测定提供了新的方法。     

CdTe量子点荧光探针测定氯霉素含量的研究

在水溶液体系中制备出了具有高质量荧光性能,巯基乙酸(TGA)修饰的CdTe量子点(QDs),基于量子点与氯霉素混合后发生荧光猝灭作用,建立CdTe量子点作为荧光探针测定氯霉素的新方法。在Tris-HCl缓冲液(pH 7.00,0.10 mol·L-1)中,反应时间为10min时,氯霉素浓度在10～70μg·mL-1范围内与CdTe量子点的荧光猝灭程度呈良好的线性关系,相关系数为0.9981,检出限为0.799μg.mL-1。方法简便快速,灵敏度高,可用于实际样品中氯霉素的检测。     

高量子产率水溶性CdTe量子点的制备与表征

以巯基乙酸(HSCH2 COOH,TGA)为稳定剂,在水相中合成高量子产率CdTe量子点(QDs),产率达68%.用紫外.可见分光光度计、荧光分光光度计、红外光谱仪、透射电子显微镜等对制备的样品进行表征.结果表明:CdTe Ods紫外吸收峰及荧光发射峰均随回流时间延长而红移,即粒径在不断增大;荧光发射峰窄而对称,表明QDs分散性好、大小较均一,半峰宽随回流时间延长而逐渐变宽,表明粒径在增大的同时粒径分布范围也变宽;从TEM及紫外.可见光谱推算,可知其粒径约为3 nm;红外光谱图说明作为稳定剂的巯基乙酸对QDs表面起到修饰作用.     

Interaction of CdTe/CdS quantum dots with antibodies

In the study,we observed the strong adsorption of CdTe/CdS QDs to antibodies and the formation of QDs-antibodies conjugates. Capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection(CE-LIF),fluorescence spectrometry and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy(FCS) were used to characterize the QDs conjugates with antibody.We found that the QDs-antibody conjugates possessed high fluorescence,small hydrodynamic radii and good stability in aqueous solution.     

CdTe/CdS量子点共振瑞利散射光谱法测定细胞色素C

以3-巯基丙酸为稳定剂,合成了具有特殊光学性质的水溶性核壳型CdTe/CdS量子点.基于细胞色素C对该量子点的共振瑞利散射有显著的增强作用,建立了一种快速检测细胞色素C的方法.在pH 7.0的磷酸盐缓冲液(PBS)中,量子点在385 nm波长处的共振瑞利散射的增强与细胞色素C浓度呈线性关系,线性范围为0.036～1.31 mg·L-1,检出限为10.8 μg·L-1.方法已用于人体血清中细胞色素C含量的测定,并用标准加入法测得方法的回收率在90.4%～933.2%之间.     

Fluorescent blood glucose monitor by hemin-functionalized graphene quantum dots based sensing system

In the present work, a highly sensitive and specific fluorescent biosensor for blood glucose monitoring is developed based on hemin-functionalized graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and glucose oxidase (GOx) system. The GQDs which are simply prepared by pyrolyzing citric acid exhibit strong fluorescence and good water-solubility. Due to the noncovalent assembly between hemin and GQDs, the addition of hemin can make hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) to destroy the passivated surface of GQDs, leading to significant fluorescence quenching of GQDs. Based on this effect, a novel fluorescent platform is proposed for the sensing of glucose. Under the optimized conditions, the linear range of glucose is from 9 to 300 μM, and the limit of detection is 0.1 μM. As unique properties of GQDs, the proposed biosensor is green, simple, cost-efficient, and it is successfully applied to the determination of glucose in human serum. In addition, the proposed method provides a new pathway to further design the biosensors based on the assembly of GQDs with hemin for detection of biomolecules.     

Electrogenerated chemiluminescence induced by sequential hot electron and hole injection into aqueous electrolyte solution

Hole injection into aqueous electrolyte solution is proposed to occur when oxide-coated aluminum electrode is anodically pulse-polarized by a voltage pulse train containing sufficiently high-voltage anodic pulses. The effects of anodic pulses are studied by using an aromatic Tb(III) chelate as a probe known to produce intensive hot electron-induced electrochemiluminescence (HECL) with plain cathodic pulses and preoxidized electrodes. The presently studied system allows injection of hot electrons and holes successively into aqueous electrolyte solutions and can be utilized in detecting electrochemiluminescent labels in fully aqueous solutions, and actually, the system is suggested to be quite close to a pulse radiolysis system providing hydrated electrons and hydroxyl radicals as the primary radicals in aqueous solution without the problems and hazards of ionizing radiation. The analytical power of the present excitation waveforms are that they allow detection of electrochemiluminescent labels at very low detection limits in bioaffinity assays such as in immunoassays or DNA probe assays. The two important properties of the present waveforms are: (i) they provide in situ oxidation of the electrode surface resulting in the desired oxide film thickness and (ii) they can provide one-electron oxidants for the system by hole injection either via F- and F⁺-center band of the oxide or by direct hole injection to valence band of water at highly anodic pulse amplitudes.     

CdTe/CdS荧光探针测定痕量铜(Ⅱ)

以巯基乙酸为稳定剂,在水溶液中合成CdTe/CdS量子点,基于量子点与Cu2+混合后发生荧光猝灭作用,建立CdTe/CdS量子点作为荧光探针检测微量铜的新方法。在pH 4.60的HAc-NaAc缓冲溶液中,反应时间为10 min时,Cu2+质量浓度在0.01～1.00μg/mL范围与CdTe/CdS量子点的荧光猝灭程度呈良好的线性关系,相关系数为0.9978,检出限为9.90×10-3μg/mL。方法可以用于雨水、自来水和延河水中Cu2+的分析。     

水溶性CdTe量子点荧光探针检测肠癌相关T抗原

直接合成性能优良的水溶性CdTe量子点,然后在其表面成功修饰花生凝集素,经过凝胶柱的分离纯化获得功能化的量子点荧光探针.基于T抗原选择性与花生凝集素(PNA)结合的特性,利用该探针对肠癌中高表达的T抗原进行检测,且与传统的荧光染料标记的免疫荧光分析进行了比较.实验结果表明:该功能化的荧光探针能够有效地识别肠癌的相关T抗原,从而为T抗原的检测以及肠癌的临床诊断与愈后判断提供了一种新的方法.     

Electrogenerated chemiluminescence and electrochemical bi-functional sensors for H2O2 based on CdS nanocrystals/hemoglobin multilayers

A novel bi-functional sensor, based on CdS nanocrystals (NCs) and hemoglobin (Hb) multilayer films, designated as {Hb/CdS}_n, modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) by layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly, has been presented. The electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) and electrochemical properties of {Hb/CdS}_n have been investigated in detail. Hb in the multilayer films can enhance the stability of electrogenerated species of CdS NCs, and CdS NCs can also promote the direct electron transfer between Hb and GCE. As a consequence experimentally, the multilayer films modified GCE is suitable to be used as a bi-functional sensor, ECL sensor and electrochemical sensor, to determine H₂O₂ in obviously different concentration. In high concentration of H₂O₂, this sensor as an ECL sensor shows a linear response from 15 μM up to 18 mM. In the lower concentration of H₂O₂, it as an amperometric one shows two linear ranges of amperometric responses to the concentration of H₂O₂ ranging from 6.0 to 31.0 μM and from 6.0 μM down to 40 nM with a detection limit of 20 nM, based on the high stability of ECL by {Hb/CdS}_n and the excellent electrocatalytical ability of Hb to H₂O₂. Thus, {CdS/Hb}_n modified electrodes would have a great merit to expand the application of biosensors to life science and environmental science.     

Photochemical instability of thiol-capped CdTe quantum dots in aqueous solution and living cells: process and mechanism

The process and mechanism of photochemical instability of thiol-capped CdTe quantum dots (QDs) in aqueous solution were experimentally studied. After laser irradiation, the corresponding Raman bands of the Cd-S bond decreased obviously, indicating bond breaking and thiol detachment from the QD surfaces. Meanwhile, a photoinduced aggregation of QDs occurred with the hydrodynamic diameter increased to hundreds of nanometers from an initial 20 nm, as detected with dynamic light scattering measurements. The bleaching of the photoluminescence of QDs under laser irradiation could be attributed to the enhanced nonradiative transfer in excited QDs caused by increased surface defects due to the losing of thiol ligands. Singlet oxygen (1O2) was involved in the photooxidation of QDs, as revealed by the inhibiting effects of 1O2 quenchers of histidine or sodium azide (NaN3) on the photobleaching of QDs. The linear relationship in Stern-Volmer measurements between the terminal product and the concentration of NaN3 demonstrated that 1O2 was the main pathway of the photobleaching in QD solutions. By comparing the photostability of QDs in C2C12 cells with and without NaN3 treatment, the photooxidation effect of 1O2 on photobleaching of cellular QDs was confirmed.