Issue 24, 2024

Simultaneous ionic cobalt sensing and toxic Congo red dye removal: a circular economic approach involving silver-enhanced fluorescence

Abstract

A highly fluorescent quinone-capped silver hydrosol (AgOSA) was obtained using salicylaldehyde and an ionic silver solution. Such metal-enhanced fluorescence was efficiently quenched with Congo red dye (CR), producing CRAgOSA, due to the strong silver–sulfur interaction, replacing the capping of quinone (oxidized salicylaldehyde). The introduction of cobalt ions restored the fluorescence by engaging CR (CoCRAgOSA). Cobalt-induced fluorescence enhancement was 8.3 times higher than that of AgOSA due to the freeing of CR and the release of self-quenching of excess quinone molecules in CoCRAgOSA. The mammoth and selective fluorescence enhancement with ionic cobalt assisted in designing a turn-on ionic cobalt sensor with a limit of detection (LOD) of 9.4 × 10−11 M and a linear detection range (5 × 10−5 to 10−9 M). Moreover, toxic CR dye was eliminated by quinone-capped silver nanoparticles and Co2+ due to chemisorption. Not only the fluorimetric sensing of ionic cobalt but also the colorimetric sensing of Hg2+ was designed due to the simultaneous aggregation of AgNPs and complexation with CR induced by Hg2+ (LOD 1.36 × 10−5 M and linear detection range from 1.00 × 10−4 to 5 × 10−7 M). We applied our sensing method to estimate ionic cobalt and mercury in natural samples. The experiment was a unique case of circular economy, where a toxic dye was used for making a nanosensor.

Graphical abstract: Simultaneous ionic cobalt sensing and toxic Congo red dye removal: a circular economic approach involving silver-enhanced fluorescence

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Jul 2024
Accepted
13 Sep 2024
First published
26 Sep 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2024,6, 6173-6183

Simultaneous ionic cobalt sensing and toxic Congo red dye removal: a circular economic approach involving silver-enhanced fluorescence

M. Sahu, M. Ganguly, P. Sharma, A. Doi and Y. Negishi, Nanoscale Adv., 2024, 6, 6173 DOI: 10.1039/D4NA00588K

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