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- Nitrogen-doped, PEGylated carbon dots (C-dots) were created to detect mercury ions with a detection limit of 6.8 nM.
- When modified with dithiothreitol (DTT), the detection limit improved significantly to 18 pM.
- This C-dots-Hg(2+) system also showed effectiveness in detecting biothiols.
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Nitrogen-doped, PEGylated carbon dots (C-dots) have been synthesized for the detection of mercury ions (Hg(2+)). The detection limit was found to be 6.8 nM. However, upon functionalization with dithiothreitol (DTT), it reached to as low as 18 pM. The C-dots-Hg(2+) system was also able to efficiently detect biothiols.
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