A novel fluorescent sensor based on electrosynthesized benzene sulfonic acid‐doped polypyrrole for determination of Pb(II) and Cu(II)

Abstract

To develop conducting organic polymers (COPs) as luminescent sensors for determination of toxic heavy metals, a new benzene sulfonic acid-doped polypyrrole (PPy-BSA) thin film was electrochemically prepared by cyclic voltammetry (CV) on flexible indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode in aqueous solution. PPy-BSA film was characterized by FTIR spectrometry, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The optical properties of PPy-BSA were investigated by ultraviolet (UV)-visible absorption and fluorescence spectrometry in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) diluted solutions. PPy-BSA fluorescence spectra were strongly quenched upon increasing copper(II) ion (Cu 2+ ) and lead(II) ion (Pb 2+ ) concentrations in aqueous medium, and linear Stern-Volmer relationships were obtained, which indicated the existence of a main dynamic fluorescence quenching mechanism.BSA-PPy sensor showed a high sensitivity for detection of both metallic ions, Cu 2+ and Pb 2+ , with very low limit of detection values of 3.1 and 18.0 nM, respectively.The proposed quenching-fluorimetric sensor might be applied to the determination of traces of toxic heavy metallic ions in water samples. KEYWORDS copper(II), electrosynthesized benzene sulfonic acid-polypyrrole, fluorescent sensor, lead(II), metallic heavy ion detection

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