“…For Fe 3+ ion, various fluorometric methods were based on GQDs, sulphur-doped carbon dots (C-dots) and carbon quantum dots (CQDs), cranberry CDs, citric acid and (NH 4 ) 2 HPO 4 CDs, and alginic acid (AA) and ethane diamine (EDA) CDs (Zhang et al 2019;Xu et al 2015;Wu et al 2018;Zulfajri et al 2019;Chandra et al 2016;Liu et al 2015). Various colorimetric methods based on 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) and melamine (MA)modified Ag NPs, L-tyrosine Ag NPs and β-cyclodextrin Ag NPs, NH 2 -MIL-125(Ti)/carbon paste electrode (CPE) photoirradiation cathodic stripping voltammetry (CSV) method, and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)/Tb(III) nanocomposite fluorometric method were compared with GSH CD-agarose hydrogel film for Mn 2+ ion (Annadhasan et al 2014;Xu et al 2014;Ye et al 2018;Hu et al 2014). Furthermore, GSH CD-hydrogel film as a detection probe was used for standard samples of 1 mM of Pb 2+ , Fe 3+ , and Mn 2+ and treated the same as described for the prepared solutions (Pb 2+ , Fe 3+ , and Mn 2+ , 1 mM), and as shown in Supporting Information of Table S2, the obtained data of standard samples were well matched with the prepared metal ion solutions.…”