Design and Synthesis of an MOF Thermometer with High Sensitivity in the Physiological Temperature Range

Dian Zhao1, Xingtang Rao1, Jiancan Yu1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China.

Inorganic Chemistry
|November 18, 2015
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