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Jie Fang1, Martin Saunders, Yanglong Guo
1Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 29, 2010
Abstract:
Superparamagnetic fluorescent nanocomposites based on doped lanthanide phosphate and magnetite nanoparticles are accessible through a facile one-pot method. The bifunctional nanocomposites adopt a koosh ball structure with both fluorescent and superparamagnetic properties for individual components maintained in the final nanostructure.
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