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A target analyte induced fluorescence band shift of piperazine modified carbon quantum dots: a specific visual
Lei Yang1, Haitong Zhao1, Ning Liu1
1MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China. nkwangwei@126.com.
Abstract:
Through the protection/deprotection of one amine group and the amidation reaction, piperazine was used to modify carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and successfully served as a medium to combine oxytetracyclines (OTC) in solution by hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probably occurred between piperazine modified CQDs (P-CQDs) and combined OTC, which resulted in the red-shift of the fluorescence band. Besides superior specificity for examining, a good linear relationship between the maximum emission wavelength of P-CQDs and concentrations of OTC (0 to 10 μM) can be obtained, which provides a rapid and convenient visual fluorescence detection method of OTC.

