Citation: Zhi-Feng CAI, Liang-Liang WU, Kai-Fei QI, Chen-Hua DENG, Shen ZHANG, Cai-Feng ZHANG. Synthesis of Proline-Stabilized Cu Nanoclusters for Detection of Picric Acid[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry, ;2021, 38(1): 107-115. doi: 10.19894/j.issn.1000-0518.200187 shu

Synthesis of Proline-Stabilized Cu Nanoclusters for Detection of Picric Acid

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Department of Chemistry, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong 030619, China
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Humic Acid Engineering and Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong 030619, China

Corresponding author: Shen ZHANG, zhangs@tynu.edu.cn
Received Date: 17 June 2020
Accepted Date: 3 September 2020

Fund Project: Shanxi Provincial Applied Fundamental Research Fund Project 201801D121257he Science and Technology Innovation Project of Shanxi Province 2020L0499the College Students′ Innovation Program of Taiyuan Normal University CXCY2004the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project for College Students in Shanxi Province 2020486

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In this work, we reported one-pot chemical reduction method for the synthesis of proline-stabilized copper nanoclusters (Cu NCs), in which proline as the capping agent and hydroxylamine hydrochloride as the reducing agent. The optical properties of Cu NCs was measured by fluorescence spectroscopy and ultraviolet(UV)-visible absorption spectroscopy. The structure of Cu NCs was characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The TEM image shows that the Cu NCs are highly dispersed and spherical in shape with a size of around 1.89 nm. The Cu NCs exhibit brown and blue fluorescence under sunlight and UV light irradiation, respectively. The Cu NCs solution shows the maximum emission peak at 458 nm under the excitation wavelength of 397 nm. Their fluorescence is selectively and sensitively quenched by picric acid. Under optimized conditions, the assay displays a linear response in the 0.5 to 15 μmol/L and 20 to 70 μmol/L picric acid (PA) concentration range, with a detection limit of 0.092 μmol/L based on an S/N ratio of 3. The possible mechanism is static quenching and the inner filter effect. In addition, the fluorescent probe has been successfully applied to the determination of PA in real water samples.
- Copper nanoclusters,
- Proline,
- Fluorescence quenching,
- Picric acid
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