Roxarsone (ROX) as an organoarsenic feed additive has been widely used in livestock breeding and poultry industry, but ROX can degrade into highly toxic inorganic arsenic species in natural environments to threaten to the environment and human health. Therefore, there is a considerable interest in developing convenient, selective and sensitive methods for the detection of ROX in livestock breeding and poultry industry. In this work, a fluorescent molecularly imprinted polymer (MIPs) probe based on amino-modified Mn-ZnS quantum dots (QDs) has been developed by sol–gel polymerization for specific recognition of ROX. The synthesized MIPs-coated Mn-ZnS QDs (MIPs@Mn-ZnS QDs) have highly selective recognition sites to ROX because there are multi-interactions among the template ROX, functional monomer phenyltrimethoxysilane and the amino-functionalized QDs such as the π–π conjugating effect, hydrogen bonds. Under the optimal conditions, an obvious fluorescence quenching was observed when ROX was added to the solution, and the quenching mechanism could be explained as the photo-induced electron transfer. The MIPs@Mn-ZnS QDs sensor exhibited sensitive response to ROX in the linear range from 3.75×10−8M to 6.25×10−7M (R2= 0.9985) and the limit of detection down to 4.34 nM. Moreover, the fluorescence probe has been applied to the quantitative detection of ROX in feed samples, and the recovery was in the range of 91.9% to 108.0%. The work demonstrated that the prepared MIPs@Mn-ZnS QDs probe has a good potential for rapid and sensitive determination of ROX in complicated samples.
Rongkun Zhu,Mushen Lai,Mingfang Zhu,Huanru Liang,Qing Zhou,Rui Li,Wenhao Zhang,Hongqing Ye
A functional ratio fluorescence sensor based on the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) coated double quantum dots (QDs) being composited of Mn-ZnS QDs and silica-coated graphene quantum dots (GQDs@SiO 2 ) had been established for the sensitive, selective and visual detection of sinapic acid (SA). MIPs@Mn-ZnS/GQDs@SiO 2 was synthesized through a simple one-pot sol-gel reaction, and it exhibited two fluorescence emission peaks with yellow fluorescence of Mn-ZnS QDs at 580 nm and the blue fluorescence of GQDs at 445 nm. SA can selectively enhance the fluorescence of GQDs but quench the Mn-ZnS QDs fluorescence to the MIPs@Mn-ZnS/GQDs@SiO 2 . The ratio of fluorescence enhancement to fluorescence reduction is linear with the concentration of SA from 9 to 81 nM with the detection limits of 0.8388 nM (S/N = 3). And the constructed fluorescent probe can also be used to visually detect SA according to the change of color. More importantly, molecular imprinting technique enables the sensors to selectively recognize the SA while other similar structure molecules hardly interfere with the SA determination in the measurement environment. Meanwhile, the fluorescence sensors have the advantages of fast response time and long duration of fluorescence intensity . These excellent performances made the proposed method to be applied for the determination of SA in Semen Sinapis and Descurainiae Semen .