“…The labeling-free assays using DNA intercalators can exhibit high sensitivity and selectivity with low cost and convenient operation (Aied et al, 2012;Lin et al, 2015;Pu and Liu, 2009;Wang et al, 2011Wang et al, , 2014Xu et al, 2010). SYBR Green I (SG), a DNA intercalating dye, is an asymmetrical cyanine dye and has a significantly enhanced fluorescence in complex with dsDNA due to a dampening of its intra-molecular motions (Dragan et al, 2012), which can be potentially utilized to develop labeling-free sensors for DNA hybridization detection.…”