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Advanced Compositional Analysis of Nanoparticle-polymer Composites Using Direct Fluorescence Imaging
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Silver-enhanced fluorescence emission of single quantum dot nanocomposites
Yi Fu1, Jian Zhang, Joseph R Lakowicz
1Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 12, 2009
Abstract:
A novel plasmon-coupled quantum dot (QD) nanocomposite via covalently interfacing the QD surfaces with silver nanoparticles was developed with greatly reduced blinking and enhanced emission fluorescence.
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