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A colorimetric selective sensing probe for calcium ions with tunable dynamic ranges using cytidine triphosphate
Sudeok Kim1, Juseon Kim, Na Hee Lee
1Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Cytidine triphosphate (CTP) stabilized-Au nanoparticles (CTP-AuNPs) allow a quantitative assay of Ca(2+) down to a concentration of 10(-4) M with high selectivity towards Ca(2+) ions over various metal ions including Mg(2+) and the detection range of this probe also can be easily tuned by changing the concentration of CTP.

