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• TITLE: Ultrasensitive Detection of Glyphosate Using CdTe Quantum Dots in Sol-Gel-Derived Silica Spheres Coated with Calix[6]arene as Fluorescent Probes

  AUTHORS: Tao Li, Yunyou Zhou, Junyong Sun, Kai Wu

  KEYWORDS: Quantum Dots; SiO2/CdTe NPs; C[6]/SiO2/CdTe NPs; Glyphosate; Fluorescence Probes

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol.3 No.1, January 5, 2012

  ABSTRACT: We have developed a simple method for the preparation of highly fluorescent and stable, water-soluble CdTe quantum dots in sol-gel-derived composite silica spheres which were coated with calix[6]arene. The resulting nanoparticles (NPs) were characterized in terms of UV, fluorescence and FT-IR spectroscopy and TEM. The results show that the new NPs display more intense fluorescence intensity and are more stable than its precursors of the type SiO2/CdTe. Under the optimum, the novel NPs exhibit a higher selectivity and ultrasensitive fluorescence probes for the determination of gly-phosate over other pesticides, the fluorescence intensity increase with the concentration of glyphosate in the range from 1.0 to 25.0 nmol/L and the detection limit is low to 0.0725 nmol/L. A mechanism is suggested to explain the inclusion process by a Langmuir binding isotherm.