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Engineering Molecular Recognition with Bio-mimetic Polymers on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Published on: January 10, 2017
Carbon nanobelts as a novel sensing platform for fluorescence-enhanced DNA detection
Xuping Sun1, Zhicai Xing, Rui Ning
1State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022 Jilin, China. sunxp@ciac.jl.cn.
Abstract:
The present communication demonstrates for the first time that carbon nanobelts (CNBs) were facilely synthesized on a large scale via pyrolysis of a 1,8-diaminonaphthalene (DAN)-NiCl2·6H2O mixture under Ar followed by acid leaching. We further demonstrate that such CNBs can be used as a novel effective fluorescent sensing platform for DNA. This sensing platform exhibits high selectivity and sensitivity with a detection limit of 5 nM.

