Ashish Chakraborty
Articles written in Journal of Chemical Sciences
Volume 126 Issue 3 May 2014 pp 627-635 Regular Articles
Colorimetric detection of Cu2+ and Pb2+ ions using calix[4]arene functionalized gold nanoparticles
Ravi Gunupuru Debdeep Maity Gopala R Bhadu Ashish Chakraborty Divesh N Srivastava Parimal Paul
Calixarene functionalized gold nanoparticles (CFAuNPs) have been prepared and characterized by spectroscopic and microscopic (TEM) techniques. To use this material as potential colorimetric sensor, the binding property of this new material has been investigated with a large number of metal ions. It exhibited sharp colour change from dark brown to green and blue, detectable by naked-eye, in the presence of Cu2+ and Pb2+ ions, respectively. It has also triggered substantial change in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) band of the functionalized gold nanoparticles, which in case of Pb(II) is due to the inter particle plasmon coupling arising from the metal-induced aggregation of the nanoparticles and for Cu(II), it is because of the formation of AuCu alloy due to anti-galvanic exchange. The size and aggregation of the nanoparticles are confirmed from HRTEM images, elemental analysis and the line profiling for both the metal ions have been done by STEM-EDX analysis.
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