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Synthesis, Cellular Delivery and In vivo Application of Dendrimer-based pH Sensors
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Photo-rechargeable battery effect in first generation cationic-cyanine dendrimers
Ajay K Pandey1, Peter C Deakin, Ross D Jansen-Van Vuuren
1Organic Semiconductor Centre. SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|August 3, 2010
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