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Chickpea peel waste as sustainable precursor for synthesis of fluorescent carbon nanotubes for bioimaging application

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2021, 31(1), pp.117-123
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-020-00156-8
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : March 20, 2020
  • Accepted : May 19, 2020
  • Published : February 1, 2021

Vikram Singh 1 Shovon Chatterjee 2 Mahendra Palecha 3 Pratik Sen 4 Bushra Ateeq 3 Vivek Verma 5

1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur,
2Department of Chemistry
3Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
4Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
5Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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ABSTRACT

In this study, we report a controlled one-pot green synthesis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) via pyrolysis of sustainable agriculture waste (chickpea peel) at 400 °C in aqueous medium. These MWCNTs demonstrated 7.0 nm diameter, 0.28 nm graphitic spacing with carbonyl, hydroxyl, and carboxylic acid functionality. The D band (presence of sp3 defects) and G band (E2g mode of graphite) at 1350 cm−1 and 1580 cm−1 originated in Raman spectrum, respectively. The prepared MWCNTs showed blue fluorescence with 10% fluorescence quantum yield in aqueous medium. The MWCNTs showed triple exponential decay characteristics with an average fluorescence lifetime of 4.7 ns. The synthesized MWCNTs revealed a consistent fluorescence in the cytoplasm of 22RV1 human prostate carcinoma cell line without exerting any sign of cytotoxicity. The MWCNTs also exhibited remarkable cytocompatibility in human immortalized prostate epithelial RWPE1 cells.

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