particles where successfully functionalized using a thiol-DNA-6- FAM oligonucleotides following the same capping ligand exchange technique used to functionalize citrate-generated AuNPs with DNA probes (Hill and Mirkin, 2006).
The novel dextrin AuNPs have the same functionalization efficiency as the citrate coated AuNPs using the same ligand exchange procedure that is commonly used for oligonucleotide AuNP surface coating (Anderson et al., 2010).