Surface adhered fluorescent carbon dots extracted from the harmful diesel soot for sensing Fe(<scp>iii</scp>) and Hg(<scp>ii</scp>) ions
Gunture Gunture, Jaidev Kaushik, Deepika Saini, Ravindra Singh, Prashant Dubey, Sumit Kumar Sonkar
Abstract
A simple cost effective isolation method has been described for the extraction of surface-adhered blue–green fluorescent carbon material from the diesel soot and used them for the selective sensing of Fe( iii ) and toxic Hg( ii ) metal ions in aqueous medium.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryFluorescenceMetal ions in aqueous solutionSootCarbon fibersDiesel fuelAqueous solutionMetalIonActivated carbonDiesel exhaustNuclear chemistryInorganic chemistryOrganic chemistryAdsorptionCombustionMaterials sciencePhysicsComposite materialComposite numberQuantum mechanicsCarbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsMercury impact and mitigation studiesMolecular Sensors and Ion Detection