“…Sulfate is one of the important anions in water science, food science, soil chemistry, biology, mineralogy and related disciplines. For analysis of trace SO 4 2− , there are visible–ultraviolet spectrophotometry, turbidimetry, fluorescence spectrophotometry, electrochemical analysis, radiochemical analysis, resonance Rayleigh scattering, ion chromatography, and so on [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. In this experiment, highly catalytic N-doped carbon dots were prepared for the HAuCl 4 -H 2 O 2 reaction, and a new and sensitive SERS quantitative analysis method was proposed for the determination of sulfate in water and beer samples, based on the CD catalysis.…”