Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Control of capillary behavior through target-responsive hydrogel permeability alteration for sensitive visual quantitative detection

  • Yansheng Li,
  • Yanli Ma,
  • Xiangyu Jiao,
  • Tingyu Li,
  • Zhehao Lv,
  • Chaoyong James Yang,
  • Xueji Zhang,
  • Yongqiang Wen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08952-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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DNA hydrogels have received considerable attention in analytical science but limitations still exist in the applications of intelligent hydrogels. Here, the authors describe a DNA hydrogel sensor for quantitative detection of cocaine based on the permeability change in a DNA hydrogel film.