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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Elucidating the Quenching Mechanism in Carbon Dot-Metal Interactions-Designing Sensitive and Selective Optical Probes.

Farah Noun, Evelyne Anastasia Jury, Rafik Naccache

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Farah NounDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.
Evelyne Anastasia JuryDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.
Rafik NaccacheDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3140-4476
Concordia University · CA

Funding

Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate FellowshipFonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies établissement de la relève professoraleNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Overexposure to metals has significant adverse effects on human and animal health coupled with nefarious consequences to the environment. Sensitive tools to measure low contaminant levels exist, but often come at a high cost and require tedious procedures. Thus, there exists a need for the development of affordable metal sensors that can offer high sensitivity and selectivity while being accessible on a global scale. Here, carbon dots, prepared in a one-pot synthesis using glutathione and formamide, have been developed as dual fluorescent metal sensing probes. Following extensive characterization of their physico-chemical properties, it is demonstrated that dual fluorescence can be exploited to build a robust ratiometric sensor with low-ppb detection sensitivity in water. This investigation shows that these optical probes are selective for Pb

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carbon dotsfluorescencemercurymetalsquenching mechanismsensors

Identifiers

PMID33671164
PMCPMC7922893
OpenAlexW3131178462

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