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Detection of toxic mercury ions using a ratiometric CdSe/ZnS nanocrystal sensor
Leah E Page1, Xi Zhang, Ali M Jawaid
1Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 7, 2011
Abstract:
We have developed a strategy for the ratiometric detection of toxic Hg(2+) ions using a semiconductor nanocrystal energy-transfer donor coupled to a mercury-sensitive "turn-on" dye acceptor. The results demonstrate a new paradigm of toxic metal sensing that resolves the difficulties with the use of semiconductor nanotechnology for this purpose.
