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Advanced Compositional Analysis of Nanoparticle-polymer Composites Using Direct Fluorescence Imaging
Published on: July 19, 2016
Hydrogen bond breakage by fluoride anions in a simple CdTe quantum dot/gold nanoparticle FRET system and its
1College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Engineering Research Center of Pesticide and Medicine Intermediate Clean Production, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, PR China.
Abstract:
Specific hydrogen bond breakage by fluoride anions was observed in a simple FRET system formed by thioglycolic acid modified CdTe quantum dots and citrate-capped gold nanoparticles.
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