Encoding microcarriers by spatial selective photobleaching

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-174

  Braeckmans, Kevin ^a   De Smedt, Stefaan C ^a   Roelant, Chris ^b   Leblans, Marc ^b   Pauwels, Rudi ^b   Demeester, Joseph ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Virco BVBA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; BAR CODES; BLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; LENSES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPES; MOLECULES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER MICROSCOPE; ENCODING MICROCARRIERS; OBJECTIVE LENS; PHOTOBLEACHING; POLYMER MICROSPHERES;

POLYSTYRENES;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MICROSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOBLEACHING;

EID: 0037362252     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat828     Document Type: Letter

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