A new application of mesoporous carbon microparticles to nucleic acid detection

Mesoporous carbon (MC) materials are important in many areas of technology, such as in storage of hydrogen and methane, supercapacitors, molecular separation, catalysis, etc. In this communication, we demonstrate the proof of concept of using MC microparticles as an effective fluorescent sensing platform for nucleic acid detection with a high selectivity down to single-base mismatch.