“…Melamine in milk products could be detected by visual and light scattering spectrometric methods with polythymine-stabilized Au NPs on the basis of the formation of triple H-bonds between thymine and melamine in aqueous solution (Qi, Wu, Ling, & Huang, 2010). Colorimetric and nonaggregationbased gold nanoparticles probe has been developed for the detection of melamine in which the synthesis of Au NPs was hindered (Cao et al, 2010) or accelerated (Wu et al, 2011) by the presence of melamine. In other reports, simple colorimetric methods base on electrostatic interactions between melamine and citrate-capped Au NPs (Chi, Liu, Guan, Zhang, & Han, 2010;Li, Li, Cheng, & Mao, 2010;Qin, Zhao, Huang, & Wu, 2009;Wei et al, 2010& Guo et al, 2010 and cysteamine-modified Au NPs (Liang et al, 2011) have been exploited for the detection of melamine.…”