Spermine
is an indicator of the meat freshness, and thus, developing
efficient approaches with low cost for spermine detection is highly
desirable. Here, we report a fluorometric probe for the sensitive
and selective detection of spermine. This probe is composed of blue
fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) and red fluorescent cadmium telluride
quantum dots (CdTe QDs), in which CdTe QDs act as the response signal
and CDs as the internal reference. The red fluorescence of CdTe QDs
is efficiently quenched, while the CD fluorescence remained constant
with the addition of spermine, leading to a distinguishable fluorescent
color variation of the probe solution from shallow pink to blue. This
probe can selectively identify spermine from other organic amines
with a low limit of detection (76 nM). Furthermore, a ratiometric
fluorescent paper is developed and employed as an on-site, rapid-responsive,
and cost-effective method for real time and visually monitoring the
freshness of pork.
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