Abstract
Nearly monodisperse Zinc oxide (ZnO) quantum dots (QDs) displayed yellow fluorescence were synthesized using urea as dispersant. In this paper, urea-ZnO QDs were used as fluorescent probe to detect Cr6+ in solution. The emission from the as-synthesized urea-ZnO QDs is selectively quenched when Cr6+ ions were added. Moreover, there are two linear relationships between the quenching of fluorescence intensity and the Cr6+ concentrations ranging from 4 μM to 1000 μM, with the detection limit for Cr6+ at 19.53 nM (on basis of 3σ/slope criterion). The quenching of fluorescence is attributed to aggregation of the QDs and charge transfer between the QDs and Cr6+ by measurements of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images, UV–visible absorption spectra and fluorescence lifetime.
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