Biofunctionalized semiconductor quantum dots for virus detection

Yingqi Liang; Guobin Mao; Junbiao Dai; Yingxin Ma

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/44/2/023101

Journal of Semiconductors, Volume. 44, Issue 2, 023101(2023)

Biofunctionalized semiconductor quantum dots for virus detection

Yingqi Liang^*, Guobin Mao^*, Junbiao Dai^*, and Yingxin Ma^**

CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China

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The Author Email: Liang Yingqi (guobinmao@126.com), Mao Guobin (guobinmao@126.com), Dai Junbiao (guobinmao@126.com), Ma Yingxin (yx.ma1@siat.ac.cn)

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