Hongyun Niu, Saihua Wang, Yixin Tan and Yaqi Cai
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 17140-17143
DOI:
10.1039/C5CC06415E,
Communication
For the first time, natural organic matter (NOM) modified AuNPs have been used as sensors to “observe” the specific interactions (such as hydrogen-bonds and halogen-bonds) between functional groups of organic compounds and NOM using colorimetric assays.