“…As a broad-spectrum antibiotic, tetracycline (TC) is often used for clinical treatment, forestry, and animal husbandry, as well as animal medication. , However, the excessive abuse of TC aggravates the evolution of drug resistance and also poses a great risk to the ecological environment after discharged wastewater treatment. , The current detection methods of TC usually include HPLC, capillary electrophoresis, and electrochemistry. − Considering the experimental cost and the environmental contamination from a large volume of organic mobile phase of HPLC, as well as the poor reproducibility of electrochemistry, the fluorescent sensor is definitely the most promising detection method because of its convenience of operation and speed of detection . A variety of fluorescent sensors for the detection of TC have been reported, most of which are based on carbon quantum dots doped with N and S atoms. , These carbon dots have excitation-dependent fluorescence, which may be important for certain practical applications, but their relatively poor color purity and broad emission spectra seriously limited their practical application. , …”