Facile preparation of high-quantum-yield gold nanoclusters: Application to probing mercuric ions and biothiols

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 18824-18831

  Chang, Heng Chia ^a   Chang, Ying Feng ^b   Fan, Nien Chu ^b   Ho, Ja An Annie ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

biothiol; high quantum yield gold nanoclusters; mercuric ion; turn off fluorescence sensor; turn on fluorescence sensor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD NANOCLUSTERS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; NANOCLUSTERS; PROBES; QUANTUM YIELD; QUENCHING;

11-MERCAPTOUNDECANOIC ACID; BIOTHIOL; FACILE PREPARATION; FLUORESCENCE SENSORS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MERCURIC IONS; SELECTED METALS;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

11-MERCAPTOUNDECANOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

FATTY ACIDS; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84910127670     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504546f     Document Type: Article

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