Luminescent Porous Silicon Nanoparticles for Continuous Wave and Time-Gated Photoluminescence Imaging

Tushar Kumeria1,2, Zhi Qu3,4, Amirali Popat3,4

  • 1School of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Australia Center of Excellence, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia. t.kumeria@uq.edu.au.

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