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Pure and Antimony-doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles for Fluorescence Sensing and Dye Degradation Applications

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Luminescent antimony doped tin oxide nanoparticles have drawn tremendous attention from researchers due to its low cost, chemical inertness and stability. Herein, a quick, facile and economic hydrothermal/solvothermal method was utilized for the preparation of antimony doped (1%, 3%, 5%, 7% and 10%) tin oxide nanoparticles. The antimony doping in a reasonable range can change the properties of SnO2. As such, a lattice distortion increases with increase in doping, which is evidenced through crystallographic studies. It was found that the highest photocatalytic degradation efficiency of malachite green (MG) dye of about 80.86% was achieved with 10% Sb-doped SnO2 in aqueous media due to small particle size. Moreover, 10% Sb-doped SnO2 also showed the highest fluorescence quenching efficiency of about 27% for Cd2+ of concentration 0.11 µg/ml in the drinking water. The limit of detection (LOD) comes out as 0.0152 µg/ml. This sample selectively detected the cadmium ion even in the presence of other heavy metal ions. Notably, 10% Sb-doped SnO2 could appeared as a promising sensor for fast analysis of Cd2+ ions in real samples.

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One of the authors, Deepika Garg is grateful to University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India, for providing senior research fellowship. Heena, one of another is also thankful to the UGC, New Delhi, India, for providing financial support under College for Potential and Excellence research grant with reference number KCP/2020/MS/2174–2179.

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    Deepika Garg, Gurdeep Singh, Manpreet Kaur, Rajpal Verma & Ashok Kumar Malik

  2. Department of Physics, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147 002, Punjab, India

    Karamjit Singh

  3. GSSDGS Khalsa College, Patiala, 147 001, Punjab, India

    Heena Rekhi

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Deepika Garg: Performed the experimentation. Gurdeep Singh, Heena Rekhi, Manpreet Kaur, Rajpal Verma: Helped in performing the experiments. Karamjit Singh and Ashok Kumar Malik: Helped in writing and supervised the research work.

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Garg, D., Singh, G., Rekhi, H. et al. Pure and Antimony-doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles for Fluorescence Sensing and Dye Degradation Applications. J Fluoresc 34, 449–463 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-023-03283-3

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