Adsorption of Oligonucleotides on Quantum Dots Coated with Zwitterionic Ligands and other Water-soluble Ligands

A strategy to ameliorate non-specific adsorption of oligonucleotides onto Quantum Dots (QDs) is investigated where QDs are being used as a platform for the development of optical bioprobes for nucleic acid detection. Certain zwitterionic structures as coatings on QDs have recently been shown to redu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mahmud, Tasmea
Other Authors: Krull, Ulrich Jorg
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32604