Rapid and efficient pesticide detection via cyclodextrin-promoted energy transfer
Nicole Serio1, John Roque1, Andrew Badwal1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Rhode Island, 51 Lower College Road, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. mlevine@chm.uri.edu.
The Analyst
|October 6, 2015
Abstract:
Cyclodextrins facilitate non-covalent fluorescence energy transfer from a variety of pesticides to high quantum-yield fluorophores, resulting in a rapid, sensitive detection scheme for these compounds with detection limits as low as two micromolar. Such a facile detection tool has significant potential applications in agriculture and public health research.


