Novel blue-emitting gold nanoclusters confined in human hemoglobin, and their use as fluorescent probes for copper(II) and histidine

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 182, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1131-1141

  Shamsipur, Mojtaba ^a   Molaabasi, Fatemeh ^b   Shanehsaz, Maryam ^c   Moosavi Movahedi, Ali Akbar ^d  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY RIPI   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Copper(II) detection; Fluorescent nanocluster; Hemoglobin capped gold nanoclusters; Histidine; Off on fluorescence switch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925513654     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-014-1428-x     Document Type: Article

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