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ANALYST
Volume 136, Issue 1, Pages 174-178Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0an00597e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20975089]
- Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province [2008GG20005005, BS2009DX006]
- Department of Science and Technology of Yantai City of China [2007156]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2010CB933504]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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The past a few years have witnessed the wide use of metallic nanoparticles as ideal reporters for colorimetric detection, which generally involves an analyte-triggered alteration of aggregation degree of applied nanoparticles, and thus the change of colloidal color. However, these aggregation-based colorimetric probe are associated with a number of drawbacks, including poor stability of nanoaggregates, requirement of complicated functionalization and non-linearity of output signals. To address these problems, we herein employ mesoporous silica-coated gold nanorods ( MS AuNRs) as novel nanocomposites for non-aggregation-based label-free colorimetric sensing relying on their chemical redox-modulated surface chemistry. In our sensing system, Hg2+ ions are reduced to Hg-0 depositing on the surface of MS AuNPs and result in a great color change of MS AuNRs, while the subsequent introduction of S2- leads to a reverse process owing to the extraction of Hg-0 by S2-. The experimental results for colorimetric sensing of Hg2+ and S2- imply considerable sensitivity and specificity, suggesting the high potential of our approach for rapid environmental monitoring and bioanalysis in the future.
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