Additional file 1: Figures S1–S4. of Gold Nanoparticle-Quantum Dot Fluorescent Nanohybrid: Application for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance-induced Molecular Beacon Ultrasensitive DNA Detection

Supplementary information: Figure S1. Overlay of the ZP curves of (A) TGA-AuNPs, (B) MPA-AuNPs, (C) l-cysteine-AuNPs, (D) GSH-AuNPs and (E) cysteamine-AuNPs at pH 3, pH 5, pH 7 and pH 9; Figure S2. Overlay of the ZP curves of (A) TGA-AuNPs, (B) MPA-AuNPs, (C) l-cysteine-AuNPs (D) GSH-AuNPs and (E) cysteamine-AuNPs at different ionic strength; Figure S3. Overlay of the ZP curves of (A) TGA-AuNPs, (B) MPA-AuNPs, (C) l-cysteine-AuNPs and (D) GSH-AuNPs at different NP concentrations of 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, and 8.0 nM; Figure S4. DLS and ZP plots for SiO2-capped CdZnSeS/ZnSe1.0S1.3 Qdots (A and B) and ZP plot for SiO2-Qdots-AuNP (C) and SiO2-Qdots-AuNP-MB (D). (DOCX 203 kb