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Dae-Young Kim1, Surendra Shinde1, Gajanan Ghodake1
1College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Dongguk University-Ilsan, 32 Dongguk-ro, 410-820, Siksadong, Goyang-si, Gyenggi-do, South Korea.
Abstract:
High reducibility of gallic acid allows synthesis of small sized monodisperse gold nanoparticles (GNPs) at ambient temperature (25°C). Mg2+ rapidly interacts with the gallic acid ligands and suppresses the dispersion of GNPs therefore, causing a decrease in UV-vis absorbance intensity, and color change from red to blue. Thus, the colorimetric response of GNPs with Mg2+ was investigated by observing temporal quenching of UV-vis absorbance and precise tuning of fractal growth of GNP aggregates. Moreover, Mg2+ at concentrations as low as 200ppb can be detected using gallic acid ligand-mediated coordination chemistry which results quenching in UV-vis absorbance proportional to the exposure time. This gallic acid-based colorimetric sensor shown a great potential for the selective detection of pathologically important electrolyte Mg2+ without any interference from other cations Ca2+ and K+.
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