Determination of Nanomolar Levels of Mercury(II) by Exploiting the Silver Stain Enhancement of the Aggregation of Aptamer-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

Analytical Letters

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 795-806

  Chen, Beibei ^a   Wang, Zebo ^a   Hu, Dongxue ^a   Ma, Qingqing ^a   Guo, Zhiyong ^a   Jiang, Xiaohua ^b   Wang, Sui ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN POLYTECHNIC   (China)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Biosensor; Gold nanoparticles; Mercury(II) ions; Silver stain enhancement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896818413     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2013.853183     Document Type: Article

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