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Sundus Erbas-Cakmak1, Engin U Akkaya

  • 1UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, 06800 (Turkey).

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|September 14, 2013
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energy transferfluorescencephotodynamic therapyphotosensitizerssinglet oxygen

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