The antibiotic contamination in water is a growing environmental concern, which prompts the need for an efficient and nontoxic adsorbent to eliminate antibiotics from water. Tetracycline (TC) is a widely used antibiotic owing to its low cost and high effectiveness, which adds to significant environmental impact. In this paper, we present a novel non-cytotoxic fluorescent wood (NCFW) with remarkable properties, including a high TC adsorption capacity (up to 99.17 mg/g), good selectivity and sensitivity for TC detection, favorable fluorescence (absolute quantum yield of 3.9%), and noncytotoxicit...
