Fabrication of a covalent organic framework and its gold nanoparticle hybrids as stable mimetic peroxidase for sensitive and selective colorimetric detection of mercury in water samples

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) without surface capping agents are easily aggregated owing to their high surface energy, leading to an unexpected decrease of their catalytic activity. Herein, we report gold nanoparticles decorated covalent organic framework (COF) as mimetic peroxidase for colorimetric de...

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Published in:Talanta (Oxford) 2019-11, Vol.204, p.224-228
Main Authors: Li, Wei, Li, Yang, Qian, Hai-Long, Zhao, Xu, Yang, Cheng-Xiong, Yan, Xiu-Ping
Format: Article
Language:English
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AuNPs
Colorimetric detection
Covalent organic frameworks
Hg2
Mimetic peroxidase
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Summary:Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) without surface capping agents are easily aggregated owing to their high surface energy, leading to an unexpected decrease of their catalytic activity. Herein, we report gold nanoparticles decorated covalent organic framework (COF) as mimetic peroxidase for colorimetric detection of mercury. 1,3,5-Tris-(4-formyl-phenyl)triazine (PT) and 4, 4′-azodianiline (Azo) was employed as the monomers to prepare a novel imine based COF PTAzo under solvothermal conditions. AuNPs are further decorated into the PTAzo to form COF-AuNPs hybrid via a citrate reducing method. The COF-AuNPs show high stability, and exhibits enhanced peroxidase mimetic activity in the presence of Hg2+. The Hg2+ concentration dependent peroxidase mimetic activity of COF-AuNPs enables the development of a sensitive and selective method for detection of Hg2+ in aqueous solution. The developed method gives good linearity in the range of 5–300 nM with the limit of detection of 0.75 nM. The results show that Hg2+-enhanced peroxidase mimetic activity of COF-AuNPs offers great potential for the detection of Hg2+ in real samples. A novel imine based covalent organic framework and gold nanoparticle composite COF-AuNPs was fabricated as stable mimetic peroxidase for sensitive and selective colorimetric detection of mercury. [Display omitted] •A novel composite COF-AuNPs was fabricated.•COF-AuNPs show high stability as mimetic peroxidase in the presence of Hg2+.•A sensitive and selective method was developed for the determination of Hg2+.
ISSN:0039-9140
1873-3573
DOI:10.1016/j.talanta.2019.05.086