Browsing University of Waterloo by Author "Hoang, Michael"

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G-Quadruplex DNA for Fluorescent and Colorimetric Detection of Thallium(I)

Hoang, Michael; Huang, Po-Jung Jimmy; Liu, Juewen (American Chemical Society, 2016-02-26)

Thallium is a highly toxic heavy metal, but its 495 nm FRET sensing is underexplored compared to its neighboring elements Blue in the periodic table: lead and mercury. Thallium has two " oxidation states. A DNAzyme-based ...
Stabilizing DNA G-quadruplexes by thallium(I) and its application for thallium detection

Hoang, Michael (University of Waterloo, 2015-08-21)

Heavy metals such as thallium are dangerous to living organisms and the environment. They are toxic and harmful. The threat of pollution from these metals is ever growing due to increased mining around the world. Thallium ...
Visual optical biosensors based on DNA-functionalized polyacrylamide hydrogels

Khimji, Imran; Kelly, Erin Y.; Helwa, Youssef; Hoang, Michael; Liu, Juewen (Elsevier, 2013-12-15)

Biosensors are devices that can provide quantitative or semi-quantitative analytical information about target molecules, where molecular recognition is based on biomolecular interactions. In recent years, DNA has emerged ...