Bright Yellow Fluorescent Carbon Dots as a Multifunctional Sensing Platform for the Label-Free Detection of Fluoroquinolones and Histidine

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Abstract

Owing to their diverse properties, fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have attracted more attention and present enormous potential in development of sensors, bioimaging, drug delivery, microfluidics, photodynamic therapy, light emitting diode, and so forth. Herein, a multifunctional sensing platform based on bright yellow fluorescent CDs (Y-CDs) was designed for the label-free detection of fluoroquinolones (FQs) and histidine (His). The Y-CDs with superior optical and biological merits including high chemical stability, good biocompatibility, and low cytotoxicity were simply synthesized via one-step hydrothermal treatment of o-phenylenediamine ( o-PD) and 4-aminobutyric acid (GABA). The Y-CDs can be utilized to directly monitor the amount of FQs based on fluorescence static quenching owing to the specific interaction between FQs and Y-CDs. Then, the fluorescence of this system can be effectively recovered upon addition of His. The multifunctional sensing platform exhibited high sensitivity and selectivity toward three kinds of FQs and His with low detection limits of 17-67 and 35 nM, respectively. Benefiting from these outstanding characters, the Y-CDs were successfully employed for trace detection of FQs in real samples such as antibiotic tablets and milk products. Furthermore, the probe was also extended to cellular imaging. All of the above prove that this multifunctional sensing platform presents great prospect in multiple applications such as biosensing, biomedicine, disease diagnosis, and environmental monitoring.

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