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[Chen, Ling; Lou, Tingting; Yu, Chunwei; Chen, Lingxin] Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Coastal Zone Environm Proc, Shandong Prov Key Lab Coastal Zone Environm Proc, Yantai Inst Coastal Zone Res, Yantai 264003, Peoples R China; [Kang, Qi] Shandong Normal Univ, Key Lab Mol & Nanomat Probes, Minist Educ China, Coll Chem Chem Engn & Mat Sci, Jinan 250014, Peoples R China; [Chen, Ling; Lou, Tingting; Yu, Chunwei] Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China

An approach for mercury ions (Hg(2+)) sensing based on the Hg(2+)-induced aggregation of thymine (T)-SH-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) has been reported. The T-SH ligands that we synthesized can easily be coupled to the surface of AuNPs through the Au-S bond and can recognize Hg(2+) with high selectivity by forming a T-Hg-T complex with strong affinity. For the T-SH-functionalized AuNPs (T-S-AuNPs) sensor, upon addition of Hg(2+), the formation of the T-Hg-T complex induces aggregation of T-S-AuNPs and results in a significant change of color and UV-Vis absorption spectra. Thus, our method can be used for the rapid, easy and reliable screening of Hg(2+) in aqueous solution, with high sensitivity (2.8 nM) and selectivity over competing analytes. The developed method is successfully applied to the sensing of Hg(2+) in real environmental samples.