In this work, a simple, enzyme-free and ultrasensitive resonance light scattering (RLS) method was developed based on graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with a catalytic hairpin assembly amplification strategy for selective detection of mutant DNA. This method contains two probes, GQDs-H1 and GQDs-H2. Two partially complementary hairpins (H1 and H2) are ingeniously and rationally designed, and they can't spontaneously hybridize with each other in the absence of target. When the target is added, the target binds with GQDs-H1 and forms GQDs-H1: target ...