“…There are many QDs that were thoroughly investigated and are recently being used and commercialized as chemical sensors. CdSe (Li et al, 2020; Sung et al, 2014; Vasudevan et al, 2015; Xi et al, 2016; Yan et al, 2017; Zhang et al, 2014, 2020), CdTe (Labeb et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2021; Zare et al, 2017), ZnSe (Ding et al, 2014; Wu et al, 2014; Zhou et al, 2018), ZnS (Devaiah Chonamada et al, 2019; Vasudevan et al, 2015), CdS (Wang et al, 2021; Xi et al, 2016), carbon (Wei et al, 2018) and graphene (Abbas et al, 2020; Qian et al, 2015) are the few QDs that have gained a large interest in the field of heavy metal sensing.…”