Application of a DNA-based luminescence switch-on method for the detection of mercury(II) ions in water samples from Hong Kong

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  He, Hong Zhang ^a   Leung, Ka Ho ^a   Fu, Wai Chung ^a   Chan, Daniel Shiu Hin ^a   Leung, Chung Hang ^b   Ma, Dik Lung ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b China Macau University of Science and Technology Zhuhai MUST Science and Technology Research Institute   (Macao)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; LUMINESCENCE; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; POLLUTION DETECTION; TURBIDITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; BACKGROUND SIGNALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; METAL ION CONCENTRATION; REAL WATER SAMPLES; SENSITIVE DETECTION; TERRITORIAL WATERS;

WATER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DNA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; LUMINESCENCE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NERVOUS SYSTEM; RIVER WATER; SAMPLING; SEAWATER; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WETLAND;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84871830166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044032     Document Type: Article

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