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Aptamer-Based Detection of Caffeine and Theophylline Through Utilization of Gold Nanoparticles and Graphene Oxide

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2023-04-26

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Labas, Sarah

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University of Waterloo

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The caffeine and theophylline aptamers were used in tandem with gold nanoparticles and graphene oxide to study potential methods for small molecule detection. The AuNP approach is a label-free approach, and the graphene oxide-based sensor is a fluorescence based approach. Each sensor is based off previous literature reporting sensors for DNA targets; more recent literature uses both methods for small molecule detection, but fails to consider target-nanomaterial interactions. The works presented in this thesis serve to determine whether such an interaction exists, and how it may affect the accuracy of the sensors.

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aptamers, biosensors, caffeine, gold nanoparticles, graphene oxide, theophylline

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/19333

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Chemistry