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Under the optimized experimental conditions, the fluorescence of the system was restored to the maximum when the concentration of thrombin reached 130 nM, with a linear range of 0\u201350 nM (R2 = 0.990) and a detection limit of 0.33 nM. This sensor was less disturbed by impurities, showing good specificity and signal response to thrombin, with good application in actual samples. The detection of human serum showed good linearity in the range of 0\u201330 nM (R2 = 0.997), with a detection limit of 0.56 nM and a recovery rate of 96.2\u2013104.1%, indicating that this fluorescence sensor can be used for the detection of thrombin content in human serum.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18020589","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,14]],"date-time":"2018-02-14T07:01:42Z","timestamp":1518591702000},"page":"589","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Detection of Thrombin Based on Fluorescence Energy Transfer between Semiconducting Polymer Dots and BHQ-Labelled Aptamers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Yizhang","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Food and Environmental Engineering, Chuzhou Vocational and Technical College, Chuzhou 239001, China"},{"name":"Laboratory of Functionalized Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Key Laboratory of Chemo\/Biosensing, Laboratory of Optical Probes and Bioelectrocatalysis (LOPAB), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuekai","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Functionalized Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Key Laboratory of Chemo\/Biosensing, Laboratory of Optical Probes and Bioelectrocatalysis (LOPAB), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenfeng","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Functionalized Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Key Laboratory of Chemo\/Biosensing, Laboratory of Optical Probes and Bioelectrocatalysis (LOPAB), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junyong","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Functionalized Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Key Laboratory of Chemo\/Biosensing, Laboratory of Optical Probes and Bioelectrocatalysis (LOPAB), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory of Functionalized Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Key Laboratory of Chemo\/Biosensing, Laboratory of Optical Probes and Bioelectrocatalysis (LOPAB), College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"73","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ab.2016.01.021","article-title":"An electrochemical aptasensor electrocatalyst for detection of thrombin","volume":"500","author":"Tian","year":"2016","journal-title":"Anal. 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