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Published on: October 9, 2012
Selective turn-on fluorescence detection of cyanide in water using hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots
Angeles Touceda-Varela1, Emily I Stevenson, José A Galve-Gasión
1School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKEH9 3JJ.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 10, 2008
Abstract:
The ability of 2,2'-bipyridine-bound copper(ii) ions to quench the photoluminescence of hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots is used to create a novel, selective turn-on fluorescence cyanide sensor.
