Nerve Agents Detection Using a Cu<sup>2+</sup>/<scp>l</scp>-Cysteine Bilayer-Coated Microcantilever

Yuming Yang, Hai‐Feng Ji, Thomas Thundat

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2003 · 166 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

A Cu2+/l-cysteine bilayer-coated microcantilever undergoes bending upon exposure to dimethyl methyl phosphonate at concentration as low as 10-15 M due to the complexation of a phosphonyl group with the Cu2+/l-cysteine bilayer on the microcantilever surface.

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