Thiol-yne click synthesis of boronic acid functionalized silica nanoparticle-graphene oxide composites for highly selective enrichment of glycoproteins.

In this work, a facile novel strategy is developed for the preparation of 4-mercapto-phenylboronic acid functionalized silica nanoparticle-graphene oxide composite (GO@MPBA) via thiol-yne click reaction. The morphology, structure and composition of the resulting GO@MPBA was characterized by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy, Thermogravimetric analysis and X-ray photoelectron spectrometry. GO@MPBA exhibited the high binding capacity towards glycoproteins such as ovalbumin (1288.8mgg