Oriented Gold Nanoparticle Aggregation for Colorimetric Sensors with Surprisingly High Analytical Figures of Merit
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- 26 July 2013
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 135 (33), 12338-12345
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja405371g
Abstract
The common drawbacks of current colorimetric sensors using gold nanoparticle aggregation is its relatively low sensitivity and narrow dynamic range, which restrict their application in real sample analysis when competing with other analytical techniques such as fluorescence and chemiluminescence. In this article, we demonstrate a novel strategy to construct colorimetric sensors based on gold nanoparticle aggregation. Unlike the conventional colorimetric sensors which cause the formation of large nanoparticle aggregates, in our strategy, dimers are selectively formed upon target binding, which results in significantly improved long-term stability and a more than 2 orders of magnitude wider dynamic range of detection than that of the conventional colorimetric sensors. In addition, a strategy to minimize the interparticle gap through the formation of a Y-shaped DNA duplex enables to increase the limit of detection by 10 000 times. The analytical figures of merit of the proposed sensor are comparable to those of the fluorescence-based sensors.Keywords
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