Martínez-Aquino, Carlos; Costero, Ana M.; Gil Grau, Salvador; Gaviña, Pablo(MDPI AG, 2018-10)
[EN] A new environmentally-friendly, simple, selective and sensitive probe for detecting formaldehyde, based on naturally-occurring compounds, through either colorimetric or fluorescence changes, is described. The probe ...
Martínez-Aquino, Carlos; Costero, Ana M.; Gil Grau, Salvador; Gaviña, Pablo(MDPI AG, 2019-02-22)
[EN] Gold nanoparticles functionalized with resorcinol moieties have been prepared and used for detecting formaldehyde both in solution and gas phases. The detection mechanism is based on the color change of the probe upon ...