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pH-Sensitive gold nanoclusters: preparation and analytical applications for urea, urease, and urease inhibitor
Hao-Hua Deng1, Gang-Wei Wu, Zhi-Qiang Zou
1Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350004, China. chenandhu@163.com.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 10, 2015
Abstract:
Herein, we reported for the first time a facile synthetic process of gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) by using N-acetyl-L-cysteine both as a reducing agent and as a protection ligand. Based on the pH stimuli-responsive properties of the as-prepared AuNCs, we constructed a pH-sensing platform for the detection of urea, urease, and urease inhibitors.
