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Advanced Compositional Analysis of Nanoparticle-polymer Composites Using Direct Fluorescence Imaging
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Materials science: Improving the image of nanoparticles
Christopher S Wood1, Molly M Stevens1
1Departments of Materials and Bioengineering, and at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Nature
|November 17, 2016
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