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Title:
VISUAL DETECTION OF MERCURY IONS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2013/144674
Kind Code:
A8
Abstract:
Composite materials comprising a mesoflower structure, methods of preparing the composite material, and methods of detecting heavy metal ion using the composite material are described herein. In some embodiments, a silica-coated gold mesoflower with a layer of silver quantum clusters may be capable of detecting Hg2+ ions in a sample at zeptomolar concentrations.

Inventors:
THALAPPIL PRADEEP (IN)
MATHEW AMMU (IN)
SAJANLAL PANIKKANVALAPPIL RAVINDRANATHAN (IN)
Application Number:
PCT/IB2012/001543
Publication Date:
December 12, 2013
Filing Date:
August 10, 2012
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Assignee:
INDIAN INST TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IN)
THALAPPIL PRADEEP (IN)
MATHEW AMMU (IN)
SAJANLAL PANIKKANVALAPPIL RAVINDRANATHAN (IN)
International Classes:
G01N31/22
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
NAIR, Manoj, Vasudevan (709/710 Tolstoy House,15-17 Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi - 1, IN)
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