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DNA Nanotubes as a Versatile Tool to Study Semiflexible Polymers
Published on: October 25, 2017
Fluorescent silver nanoclusters in hybridized DNA duplexes for the turn-on detection of Hg2+ ions
Liu Deng1, Zhixue Zhou, Jing Li
1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, PR China.
Abstract:
Using the Hg(2+)-mediated T-T formation to strengthen the DNA duplexes and influence the configuration of fluorescent Ag NCs-forming sequences, a turn-on fluorescence detection method for Hg(2+) has been established.
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