Yolk-shell structured Au@Ag@mSiO2 as a probe for sensing cysteine enantiomers and Cu2+ based on circular dichroism
Jing Wang1, Xu Xu, Xiaolin Qiu
1School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China. wangjingalice@just.edu.cn pyxhx@just.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A yolk-shell structured Au@Ag@mSiO2 probe was fabricated by coating a layer of mesoporous silica on the surface of a Au@Ag core-shell nanosphere, followed by partially removing the Ag shell. Mirror symmetrical chiral signals at ∼258 nm in the UV region were observed for the probe upon coupling with cysteine enantiomers on the surface of Au@Ag. The intensity of the CD signal of the probe is enhanced by increasing l/d-Cys concentration, allowing the quantitative determination of the cysteine enantiomers. The developed method shows an excellent linear relationship between the CD signal and l-Cys concentration ranging from 10 μM to 90 μM with a limit of detection of 8.5 μM. In the presence of Cu2+, the CD signal of the probe weakened due to the oxidation of l-cysteine to l-cystine catalyzed by Cu2+. Based on this phenomenon, a new strategy for the detection of Cu2+ can be developed. Under the optimized conditions, the CD signal decreases linearly with the log of the concentration of Cu2+ in the range from 1 to 250 nM with a detection limit of 0.1 nM.
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