Silver-enhanced fluorescence of bimetallic Au/Ag nanoclusters as ultrasensitive sensing probe for the detection of folic acid.

Abstract:

:Folic acid (FA) is the natural form of water-soluble vitamins widely found in most plants and animal products and its deficiency leads to several human body abnormalities. The advancements of metal nanoclusters are highly increasing due to their molecule-like optical properties and attractive applications. Because of increasingly demand of noble metal nanoclusters as sensing templates, different synthesis methods have been developed for facile synthesis of noble metal nanoclusters. Herein, red-emitting fluorescent bovine serum albumin (BSA)-capped Au-Ag bimetallic NCs are facilely synthesized through green one-pot synthetic approach. The effect of silver on the fluorescence properties of Au NCs was investigated and it was found that introduction of silver can enhance the fluorescence intensity. The fluorescence intensity of the as-prepared Au-Ag nanoclusters gets quenched in the presence of folic acid in an aqueous medium and it was used as ultrasensitive sensing probe for FA detection. The developed Au-Ag NCs-based sensing probe shows linear response in the wide range of 0-100 μM and the detection limit is as low as 0.47 nM. Its applicability has also been confirmed successfully in real human serum, urine and FA tablet samples. Due to the high stability, sensitivity and selectivity, the developed bimetallic cluster sensing system is highly promising to be applied in the pharmaceutical and clinical laboratories.

journal_name

Talanta

journal_title

Talanta

authors

Fereja SL,Li P,Guo J,Fang Z,Zhang Z,Zhuang Z,Zhang X,Liu K,Chen W

doi

10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122469

keywords:

["Bovine serum albumin","Fluorescence","Folic acid","Metal nanocluster","Quenching","Sensing probe"]

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-10-01 00:00:00

pages

122469

eissn

0039-9140

issn

1873-3573

pii

S0039-9140(21)00390-8

journal_volume

233

pub_type

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