Research Article

The Application of Green-Synthesis-Derived Carbon Quantum Dots to Bioimaging and the Analysis of Mercury(II)

Table 1

Detecting Hg2+ in real samples (n = 5).

SampleAdded (μM)Found (μM)Recovery (%)RSD (%)

Lake water1.000.945 (0.967a)94.52.5
10.09.611032.1

Serum1.000.895 (0.932a)89.54.8
10.09.3793.73.6

aThe concentrations in parentheses were determined by hydride-generation atomic fluorescence spectrophotometry.