Blue emitting gold nanoclusters templated by poly-cytosine DNA at low pH and poly-adenine DNA at neutral pH

Thomas Kennedy, James L. MacLean, Juewen Liu

Chemical Communications · 2012 · 216 citations · 34 references

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Abstract

Blue fluorescent gold nanoclusters were prepared in the presence of poly-cytosine DNAs at low pH and poly-adenine at neutral pH using citrate as the reducing agent; various buffer conditions affecting the synthesis have been explored.

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