Ultrasensitive Profiling of Metabolites Using Tyramine-Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 3622-3629

  Li, Nan ^a   Than, Aung ^a   Wang, Xuewan ^a   Xu, Shaohai ^a,b   Sun, Lei ^b   Duan, Hongwei ^a   Xu, Chenjie ^a   Chen, Peng ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

fluorometric biosensing; graphene quantum dots; metabolite detection; photoluminescence quenching

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMOLECULES; DIAGNOSIS; GRAPHENE; METABOLITES; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

BIOSENSING; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; METABOLIC DISORDERS; METABOLITE PROFILING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; SENSING PLATFORMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAPHITE; LACTIC ACID; QUANTUM DOT; TYRAMINE; XANTHINE;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FLUOROMETRY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHOLESTEROL; FLUOROMETRY; GRAPHITE; LACTIC ACID; MICE; QUANTUM DOTS; TYRAMINE; XANTHINE;

EID: 84961872482     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b08103     Document Type: Article

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