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In the paper, hydrothermal carbon spheres (HTCs) are functionalized by the 3-aminobenzeneboronic acid (3-APBA) as a fluorescence sensor. The modification carbon spheres (3-APBA-HTCs) have shown excellent selectivity and sensitivity for efficient determination of L-tryptophan (L-Trp). The fluorescence sensor can selectively achieve the “On–Off” switchable functionality for L-Trp at an extremely low detection limit of 0.50 × 10− 5 mol/L.
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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (201602347, GY2016-B-003), Liaoning Provincial Department of Education Innovation Team Projects (LT2015012) and Shenyang Science and Technology Plan Project (F17-231-1-05). College Students Innovation and entrepreneurship training program of Liaoning University (x201710140196). The authors also thank our colleagues and other students for their participating in this work.
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The infrared spectra of the HTCs and 3-APBA-HTCs, the UV spectra of the 3-APBA-HTCs, the thermogravimetric (TG) analysis curves of HTCs and 3-APBA-HTCs and fluorescence spectra upon the addition of 2.085 mM of different amino acids to the same amount of 3-APBA-HTCs are available in Supporting Information.
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Zhang, R., Wang, LX., Zhang, YD. et al. A Fluorescent Sensor of 3-Aminobenzeneboronic Acid Functionalized Hydrothermal Carbon Spheres for Facility Detection of L-tryptophan. J Fluoresc 28, 439–444 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-017-2205-0
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