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

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2012-07-11

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Kennedy, Thomas A.C.
MacLean, James L.
Liu, Juewen

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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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gold nanoclusters, DNA, citrate

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2CC32841K
 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11405

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