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Artificial tongue based on metal-biomolecule coordination polymer nanoparticles
Fang Pu1, Xiang Ran2, Jinsong Ren1
1Laboratory of Chemical Biology and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China. jren@ciac.ac.cn xqu@ciac.ac.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 17, 2016
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Researchers developed an artificial tongue using nucleotides, dyes, and lanthanide ions for metal ion detection. This biomolecule-based system shows promise for advanced sensing applications.
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