孙耀和张亮的文章被NJC以“Hot Article”研究亮点专栏报道

“Naked-eye” detection of chirality

By Laurent Vial, Assistant Editor of NJC

Chiral analysis continues to receive considerable attention since enantiomers often differ in their pharmacological activity and pharmacokinetic profile.

In this NJC letter, Haibing Li and co-workers from     Central     China     Normal     University   at      Wuhan   (P.R. China) report a colorimetric sensor that displays a selective and strong response to L-histidine resulting from the agglomeration of silver nanoparticles. The authors believe that the self-assembly of nanoparticles into clusters is an effective approach to improve the sensitivity of chiral detection.

“Chiral colorimetric recognition of amino acids based on silver nanoparticle clusters” Yao Sun, Liang Zhang and Haibing Li, New J. Chem., 2012, 36, 1442-1444.

This “Hot article” will be FREE to access for a period of 4 weeks. http://blogs.rsc.org/nj/     2012/06/07   /naked-eye-detection-of-chirality/