Fig. 1.
(a) The fundamental mechanism of FRET that involves a transfer of energy form an excited donor to a nearby acceptor in a non-radiative fashion through long-range dipole–dipole interactions; (b) spectral overlap between emission spectrum of CdTe/ZnS QDs as a donor and absorption spectrum of BHQ2 as an acceptor that leads to FRET; C) A schematic of DNA-conjugated CdTe/ZnS QDs nanoprobe for detection of complementary (target- DNA) derived from Covid-19 virus genome.