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The detection of Fe (III) and ascorbic acid by fluorescence quenching and recovery of carbon dots prepared from coffee waste

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Coffee waste-derived carbon dots (C-CDs) that emit blue light were synthesized via hydrothermal process. The synthesized C-CDs have a round shape with average diameter of ∼3.7 nm. The C-CDs show PL emission centered at 450 nm with excitation wavelength at 360 nm. The C-CDs show promising applications as Fe3+ sensors in aqueous solutions by fluorescence quenching. The C-CDs exhibited strong turn-off fluorescence when trace Fe3+ was added to the solution. Furthermore, the C-CDs-Fe3+ can also be used as a turn-on sensor for the detection of ascorbic acid (AA). AA reduces Fe3+ to Fe2+, resulting in the recovery of fluorescence intensity of the quenched C-CDs. Thus, the C-CDs can be used as a rapid and effective dual mode “off-on” fluorescence sensor for Fe3+ and AA. The fluorescence response exhibits a good linear relationship with the concentration of Fe+3 and AA in the range of 0–100 and 0–1 µM, with a limit of detection (LOD) around 4.314 and 0.162 µM, respectively.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2021R1A6A1A03038996) and by the Gachon University research fund of 2020 (GCU-202002400001).

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Won, S., Kim, J. The detection of Fe (III) and ascorbic acid by fluorescence quenching and recovery of carbon dots prepared from coffee waste. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 39, 2826–2833 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-022-1138-8

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