Electronic Supplementary Material 1 2 3 Nanosensor for dopamine and glutathione based on the quenching and recovery of the 4 fluorescence of silica-coated quantum dots 5 Xiangzhao Ai, Qiang Ma, Xingguang Su* 6 Department of Analytical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 7 130012, China 8 *Corresponding author, Tel.: +86-431-85168352, E-mail address: suxg@jlu.edu.cn 9 10 11 12 13 Fig. S1 The mean hydrodynamic diameter of QDs, QDs@silica and QDs@silica–dopamine 14 in water. The concentration of QDs, QDs@silica and QDs@silica–dopamine are 15 2.5×10-7 mol L-1, 8.0 g L-1 and 8.0 g L-1 (dopamine is 0.5 mmol L-1), respectively. 16 1 1 2 3 4 Fig. S2 The zeta potential of QDs, QDs@silica and QDs@silica–dopamine in water. The concentration of QDs, QDs@silica and QDs@silica–dopamine are 1×10-6 mol L-1, 3.22 g L-1 and 3.22 g L-1 (dopamine is 0.5 mmol L-1), respectively. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Fig. S3 The relationship between the decrease of PL intensity (ΔF=I0-I) of QDs@silica and pH value in the presence of 12.88 g L-1 QDs@silica and 0.1 mmol L-1 dopamine. I0 and I are the PL intensity in the absence and presence of dopamine. 13 2 1 2 3 4 Fig. S4 The photoluminescence (PL) intensity of QDs@silica in different pH environment (PBS, 10 mmol L-1). 5 6 7 8 9 Fig. S5 The relationship between photoluminescence (PL) intensity of QDs@silica and incubation time in the presence of 0.1 mmol L-1 dopamine. 3 1 Table S1 Analysis of dopamine by different detection methods. 2 Method Linear range Detection limit (μmol L-1) (μmol L-1) Reference MWCN with MB composite film-modified electrode 0.4-10 0.2 (1) Amperometric detector for microchip CE 4-500 1.2 (2) Titanate nanotubes for detect dopamine 4.45-155 0.1 (3) Electrochemical using porphyrin-functionalized graphene 0.01-70 0.01 (4) Polyaniline/ruthenium complexes films on electrode 40-1200 40 (5) Electropolymerisation of L-arginine at electrode 0.5-100 0.5 (6) 100-10000 - (7) 0.5-100 0.241 This Ultrathin films of polypyrrole derivatives QDs@silica turn off/on nanosensor for dopamine paper 3 4 5 6 Table S2 Analysis of glutathione (GSH) by different detection methods. 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