Carboxylic Carbon Quantum Dots as a Fluorescent Sensing Platform for DNA Detection

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1951-1957

  Loo, Adeline Huiling ^a   Sofer, Zdenek ^b   Bouša, Daniel ^b   Ulbrich, Pavel ^b   Bonanni, Alessandra ^a   Pumera, Martin ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

biosensor; carbon quantum dot; carboxylic groups; fluorescence; nucleic acid; quenching

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOSENSORS; DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARBON QUANTUM DOTS; CARBOXYLIC GROUP; DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; FLUORESCENT SENSING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SINGLE-BASE MISMATCH; SINGLE-STRANDED DNA;

DNA;

CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; QUANTUM DOT;

CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CALIBRATION; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DNA; FLUORESCENT DYES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84955621092     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b10160     Document Type: Article

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