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Quantum Dots for DNA Biosensing

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44910-9

ISBN: 978-3-642-44909-3

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals

Dec 5, 2013

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Chapter 1Introduction

Zhu, Jun-Jie; Li, Jing-Jing

Pages: 1 –7

[DNA biosensors have been widely studied because of their importance in clinical diagnosis, homeland defense as well as environment monitoring. Specifically, with the development of nanotechnology, such as the emergence of quantum dots (QDs), numerous QD-based DNA biosensors have been fabricated...
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Chapter 2Quantum Dots

Zhu, Jun-Jie; Li, Jing-Jing

Pages: 9 –24

[In the past 30 years, quantum dots (QDs) have developed a lot from their kinds to the various application areas. Traditional nanocrystals are usually composed of elements from groups III–V, II–VI, or IV–VI of the periodic table, such as CdS, CdSe, CdTe, CdS@ZnS, CdSe@ZnS, CdSeTe@ZnS. These QDs...
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Chapter 3Quantum Dot-Fluorescence-Based Biosensing

Zhu, Jun-Jie; Li, Jing-Jing; Cheng, Fang-Fang

Pages: 25 –51

[ Since the emergence of quantum dots (QDs), their excellent fluorescent properties have been widely used in the fabrication of biological sensors for various analytes, such as metal ions, environmental samples, protein, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and ribonucleic acid (RNA). More importantly,...
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Chapter 4Quantum Dot-Electrochemiluminescence-Based Biosensing

Zhu, Jun-Jie; Huang, Hai-Ping

Pages: 53 –70

[ As newly developed inorganic materials, quantum dots (QDs) have received considerable attention because of their unique nanorelated properties including high quantum yield, simultaneous excitation with multiple fluorescence colors, and electrochemical properties. This chapter presents a general...
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Chapter 5Quantum Dot-Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Biosensing

Zhu, Jun-Jie; Huang, Hai-Ping; Cheng, Fang-Fang

Pages: 71 –91

[Besides excellent optical and electrochemiluminescence properties of quantum dots, their electrochemical and photoelectrochemical behaviors have also been discovered and well employed in DNA biosensing. This chapter presents a general description of the electrochemical and photoelectrochemical...

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