Abstract
The judgment of microalgae viability is a vital procedure in the process of microalgae culture and treatment, which also plays an important role in bioremediation, bioindication, and pharmacology fields. The current conventional methods for defining living/dead microalgal cells are complicated or laborious. Hence, developing a simple and reliable detection method for microalgae viability is still challenging. Here, we developed chlorella-based carbonized polymer dots (c-CPDs) by a hydrothermal method. Due to their small average size of 5.0 nm, obvious excitation-dependent emission, stable fluorescence properties, and low toxicity, c-CPDs could be used for distinguishing living or dead chlorella by testing different fluorescence characteristics of c-CPD-labeled chlorella. Compared with conventional cellular dyes used for differentiating living/dead microalgae, c-CPDs significantly reduced toxicity, showing good sensitivity and reliability. This work provided a method to prepare environmentally friendly carbon dots (CDs) using microalgae, which had potential to be prepared on a large scale and might be applied feasibly in the preparation of doped CDs by controlling the growth of chlorella.
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