Bibliographic citations
Rojas, J., (2019). Evaluación de nanopartículas de plata estabilizadas con ligandos sulfurados como sensores de Hg (II) en muestras de agua [Tesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/14913
Rojas, J., Evaluación de nanopartículas de plata estabilizadas con ligandos sulfurados como sensores de Hg (II) en muestras de agua [Tesis]. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/14913
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title = "Evaluación de nanopartículas de plata estabilizadas con ligandos sulfurados como sensores de Hg (II) en muestras de agua",
author = "Rojas Cárdenas, Jorge David",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2019"
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Mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals that exists and is widely distributed in the environment and can be found in water, air and soil. Mercury is not biodegradable, so it remains in diverse ecosystems and accumulates in various marine species. In our country, mercury is widely used in informal and illegal gold mining. The resulting effluents are discharged into rivers, exposing the population and the environment to this pollutant. Among the different forms of mercury, Hg2+ is the most common and stable form, due to its great solubility in water. Due to the presence of microorganisms in aquatic systems, inorganic mercury is converted into methyl mercury, a substance highly toxic to living organisms. Commonly, the analysis of mercury is made by techniques such as flame atomic absorption spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) are used. They have excellent limits of detection, but they require long sample preparation times and specialized and costly instrumentation. For this reason, alternative methodologies for the detection of mercury have been sought in recent years. Among the new technological and scientific advances, the use of noble metal nanoparticles (silver and gold) as colorimetric sensors has emerged. These sensors exploit the localized surface plasmon band of the nanoparticles, which appears in the UV-Visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This new approach is presented as an interesting alternative, due to the low production costs, its ability to provide a rapid and reliable analytical response, together with the use of more accessible instrumentation such as UV-Vis spectrophotometers. In addition, this new approach allows the adaptation of the new systems in order to have portable devices that allow on-site measurements. In the present research work, spherical AgNPs have been synthesized and characterized by transmission electron microscopy and UV-Vis spectrophotometry. A functionalization protocol has been implemented and optimized for AgNPs with the sulfuric ligands cysteamine and cysteine in order to detect Hg2+ in water. Finally, a colorimetric method for quantify Hg2+ in water using the functionalized AgNPs has been optimized. For the AgNPs-CyNH2 sensor, it was possible to obtain a detection limit of 108 nM with an incubation time of 2 min, while for the AgNPs-Cy sensor, a detection limit of 441 nM was obtained with an incubation time of 20 min.
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