- Title
- A highly selective and sensitive pyridylazo-2-naphthol-poly (acrylic acid) functionalized electrospun nanofiber fluorescence “turn-off” chemosensory system for Ni 2+
- Creator
- Adewuyi, Sheriff
- Creator
- Ondigo, Dezzline A
- Creator
- Zugle, Ruphino
- Creator
- Tshentu, Zenixole R
- Creator
- Nyokong, Tebello
- Creator
- Torto, Nelson
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/246012
- Identifier
- vital:51428
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1039/C2AY25182E"
- Description
- A fluorescent nanofiber probe for the determination of Ni2+ was developed via the electrospinning of a covalently functionalized pyridylazo-2-naphthol-poly(acrylic acid) polymer. Fluorescent nanofibers with diameters in the range 230–800 nm were produced with uniformly dispersed fluorophores. The excitation and emission fluorescence were at wavelengths 479 and 557 nm respectively, thereby exhibiting a good Stokes' shift. This Ni2+ probe that employs fluorescence quenching in a solid receptor–fluorophore system exhibited a good correlation between the fluorescence intensity and nickel concentration up to 1.0 μg mL−1 based on the Stern–Volmer mechanism. The probe achieved a detection limit (3δ/S) of 0.07 ng mL−1 and a precision, calculated as a relative standard deviation (RSD) of more than 4% (n = 8). The concentration of Ni2+ in a certified reference material (SEP-3) was found to be 0.8986 μg mL−1, which is significantly comparable with the certified value of 0.8980 μg mL−1. The accuracy of the determinations, expressed as a relative error between the certified and the observed values of certified reference groundwater was ≤0.1%. The versatility of the nanofiber probe was demonstrated by affording simple, rapid and selective detection of Ni2+ in the presence of other competing metal ions by direct analysis, without employing any further sample handling steps.
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- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (7 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Analytical Methods
- Relation
- Adewuyi, S., Ondigo, D.A., Zugle, R., Tshentu, Z., Nyokong, T. and Torto, N., 2012. A highly selective and sensitive pyridylazo-2-naphthol-poly (acrylic acid) functionalized electrospun nanofiber fluorescence “turn-off” chemosensory system for Ni 2+. Analytical Methods, 4(6), pp.1729-1735
- Relation
- Analytical Methods volume 4 number 6 p. 1729 2012 1759-9679
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- Rights
- Open Access
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Tshentu, Zenixole Richman (Dr)
Torto, Nelson (Prof)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Nyokong, Tebello (Distinguished Professor)
RU Department of Chemistry
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