A facile assay for direct colorimetric visualization of lipopolysaccharides at low nanomolar level

Nano Research

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 486-493

  Sun, Jiayu ^a   Ge, Jiechao ^a   Liu, Weimin ^a   Wang, Xueliang ^a   Fan, Zhiyuan ^a   Zhao, Wenwen ^a   Zhang, Hongyan ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^a   Lee, Shuit Tong ^b  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

endotoxin; gold nanoparticle; Gram negative; Lipopolysaccharide (LPS); sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864116079     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0234-1     Document Type: Article

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