Quenching of CdSe quantum dot emission, a new approach for biosensing

Dyadyusha, L., Yin, H., Jaiswal, S., Brown, T., Baumberg, J.J., Booy, F.P. and Melvin, T. (2005) Quenching of CdSe quantum dot emission, a new approach for biosensing. Chemical Communications, 25, 3201-3203. (doi:10.1039/b500664c)

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The emission of CdSe quantum dots linked to the 5'-end of a DNA sequence is efficiently quenched by hybridisation with a complementary DNA strand with a gold nanoparticle attached at the 3'-end; contact of the quantum dot and gold nanoparticle occurs.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1359-7345 (print)
Uncontrolled Keywords:molecular beacons, energy-transfer, in-vivo, fluorescence, dna, hybridization, probe, oligonucleotides, nanoparticles, nanocrystals
Related URLs:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/en...med_DocSum
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b500664c
Subjects:T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Q Science > QD Chemistry
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics
Divisions:University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Electronics and Computer Science
University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Optoelectronics Research Centre
University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Physics and Astronomy
University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Chemistry
ePrint ID:20783
URI:http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/20783
Deposited On:01 Mar 2006
Last Modified:01 Jun 2011 12:06

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