Issue 89, 2012
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Chemical Communications

A multifunctional nanosensor based on silicananoparticles and biological applications in living cells†

Wenyu Wu,a   Zhihong Sun,b   Ye Zhang,a   Jun Xu,a   Huisheng Yu,a   Xiao Liu,a   Qin Wang,b   Weisheng Liua  and  Yu Tang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province, State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P. R. China
E-mail: tangyu@lzu.edu.cn
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Tel: (+86) 931-891-2552

b Institute of Cancer Biology and Drug Screening, School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Abstract

A multifunctional nanosensor based on silica nanoparticles has been designed by importing metal binding sites and hydrogen bonds directly attached to the chromophore. It works well in the recognition of Hg2+, H2PO4−, S2−via different combination mechanisms, and intracellular imaging.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC36686J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Aug 2012
Accepted
24 Sep 2012
First published
25 Sep 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 11017-11019

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A multifunctional nanosensor based on silica nanoparticles and biological applications in living cells

W. Wu, Z. Sun, Y. Zhang, J. Xu, H. Yu, X. Liu, Q. Wang, W. Liu and Y. Tang, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 11017 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC36686J

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