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Chickpea peel waste as sustainable precursor for synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanotubes for bioimaging application

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In this study, we report a controlled one-pot green synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) via pyrolysis of sustainable agriculture waste (chickpea peel) at 400 °C in aqueous medium. These MWCNTs demonstrated 7.0 nm diameter, 0.28 nm graphitic spacing with carbonyl, hydroxyl, and carboxylic acid functionality. The D band (presence of sp3 defects) and G band (E2g mode of graphite) at 1350 cm−1 and 1580 cm−1 originated in Raman spectrum, respectively. The prepared MWCNTs showed blue fluorescence with 10% fluorescence quantum yield in aqueous medium. The MWCNTs showed triple exponential decay characteristics with an average fluorescence lifetime of 4.7 ns. The synthesized MWCNTs revealed a consistent fluorescence in the cytoplasm of 22RV1 human prostate carcinoma cell line without exerting any sign of cytotoxicity. The MWCNTs also exhibited remarkable cytocompatibility in human immortalized prostate epithelial RWPE1 cells.

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VS thank Department of Materials Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India for fellowship (Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship) and funding (PDF 88). PS thanks Visvesvaraya PhD Programme of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India for providing young faculty research fellowship. BA is thankful for the research funding from the Welcome Trust/DBT India Alliance (IA/I(S)/12/2/500635 to BA), Department of Biotechnology, Government of India (BT/PR8675/GET/119/1/2015) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (EMR/2016/005273). We acknowledge advance imaging centre and advance centre for materials science, IIT Kanpur for HR-TEM and XPS study, respectively. This work was supported by Department of Science and Technology-Technology Systems Development Program (DST-TSDP) grant number DST/TSG/AMT/2015/329 awarded to VV.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    Vikram Singh & Vivek Verma

  2. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    Shovon Chatterjee & Pratik Sen

  3. Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    Mahendra Palecha & Bushra Ateeq

  4. Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    Vivek Verma

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Singh, V., Chatterjee, S., Palecha, M. et al. Chickpea peel waste as sustainable precursor for synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanotubes for bioimaging application. Carbon Lett. 31, 117–123 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-020-00156-8

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