READ ME File For 'Raw Data for A DNA Sensor Based on Upconversion Nanoparticles and 2D Dichalcogenide Materials' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1553 ReadMe Author: Kostantina Alexaki, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: "A DNA Sensor Based on Upconversion Nanoparticles and 2D Dichalcogenide Materials" Konstantina Alexaki, Davide Giust, Maria-Eleni Kyriazi, Afaf H. El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Otto L. Muskens and Antonios G. Kanaras Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering Contents All experimental data recorded and used to generate the above title manuscript and submitted to Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering In particular the dataset contains the data recorded to generate the following figures included in the publication. The figures are as follows: Fig. 1: Fluorescence data for the quenching efficiency of 2D dicacogenide materials Fig. 2: Fluorescence emission data of the ?max of the two typical peaks of UCNPs in the presence of increasing concentration of MoS2 or WS2 Fig. 3: Fluorescence spectra of ssDNA-coated UNCPs in the presence of increasing concentrations of complementary DNA targets Fig. 4: Data showing maximum nanoparticle fluorescence intensity bands measured at 540 nm and 655 nm for MoS2 and WS2 as a function of cDNA concentration Fig. 5: Fluorescence data in the prescence of a non-complementary target Fig. S1: Raw TEM images of core and core shell UCNPs with corresponding histograms showing the size distribution of UCNPs Fig. S2: Raw XRD data of core and core shell UPCNPs Fig. S3: Raw digital photographs of core and core shell UCNPs irradiated with a 980 nm laser Fig. S4: Zeta potential data of PAA and DNA - coated UCNPs Fig. S5: FT-IR data of core shell, PAA and DNA-coated UCNPs Fig. S6: UV-Vis absorption data of both MoS2 and WS2 dichalcogenite materials Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Related projects: BB/N021150/1 Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K. Date: September 2020