Metal-Enhanced Hg²⁺-Responsive Fluorescent Nanoprobes: From Morphological Design to Application to Natural Waters.

ABSTRACT: Metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) is a powerful tool in the design of sensitive chemical sensors by improving brightness and photostability of target-responsive fluorophores. Compounding these advantages with the modest hardware requirements of fluorescence sensing compared to that of centralized elemental analysis instruments, thus expanding the use of MEF to the detection of low-level inorganic pollutants, is a compelling aspiration. Among the latter, monitoring mercury in the environment, where some of its species disseminate through the food chain and, in time, to humans, has elicited a broad research effort toward the development of Hg²⁺-responsive fluorescent sensors. Herein, a Hg²⁺-sensitive MEF-enabled probe was conceived by grafting a Hg²⁺-responsi

SUBMITTER: Picard-Lafond A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260771 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature