“…In the first type of sensor, the interactions between a ligand and Hg 2+ results in changes in fluorescence ( Figure 1A). The main disadvantage of this type of sensor is its vulnerability to interference from other metal ions, especially Cu 2+ , Cd 2+ , and Fe 3+ Kau et al, 2012;Rao et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2014;Fang et al, 2016;Alibert et al, 2017;Huang et al, 2019). In the second type of sensor, special chemical reactions (e.g., desulfurization between the ligands and Hg 2+ ) generate a new product with a different fluorescence spectrum (Figure 1B).…”