TY - JOUR A1 - Climent Terol, Estela A1 - Hecht, Mandy A1 - Witthuhn, Heike A1 - Gawlitza, Kornelia A1 - Rurack, Knut T1 - Cover profile for the article "Mix‐&‐read determination of Mercury(II) at trace levels with hybrid mesoporous silica materials incorporating fluorescent probes by a simple mix‐&‐load technique" T2 - ChemistryOpen N2 - Invited for this month’s cover picture is the group of Dr. Knut Rurack at the Department of Analytical Chemistry; Reference Materials at the Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM) in Berlin (Germany). The cover picture shows how differences in color and fluorescence on a test strip can be easily read out with a mobile device. Two reference spots Frame the sensitive spot that indicates the presence of trace amounts of HgII below the threshold in a natural water sample. This dipstick contains a hybrid material that combines boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) probes sterically loaded into specifically tailored mesoporous silica particles, allowing for ultrasensitive HgII detection through enhanced fluorescence in a few seconds. The applicability in real water samples and fish extracts are also studied. PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim KW - Mercury KW - Fluorescence KW - Dip-stick assay KW - Group profile PY - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47126 AN - OPUS4-47126 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-471267 SN - 2191-1363 VL - 7 IS - 12 SP - 932 EP - 933 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany