Time-Resolved Visual Chiral Discrimination of Cysteine Using Unmodified CdTe Quantum Dots

Abstract Herein, we demonstrate a simple yet novel luminescence assay for visual chiral discrimination of cysteine. Thioglycolic acid (TGA)-capped cadmium-telluride (CdTe) quantum dots (QDs) exposing green emission were directly synthesized in aqueous solution. The interaction between cysteine molec...

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Main Authors: Forough Ghasemi, M. Reza Hormozi-Nezhad, Morteza Mahmoudi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00983-2