Blue light emitting gold nanoparticles functionalized with non-thiolate thermosensitive polymer ligand: optical properties, assemblies and application†
Abstract
The thermoresponsive copolymer ligand containing 8-hydroxyquinoline capped gold NPs with blue light emission show coordinate induced self-assemblies, aggregation-induced emission enhancement and sensitive detection to Hg2+ in aqueous solution with a detection limit of 0.9 nM.