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

L. Dyadyusha, Huabing Yin, Supriya L. Jaiswal, Tom Brown, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Frank P. Booy, T. Melvin

Chemical Communications · 2005 · 208 citations · 31 references

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Abstract

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.

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