Incorporation of luminescent nanocrystals into monodisperse core-shell silica microspheres

Advanced Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 23-24, 2004, Pages 2092-2097

  Chan, Yinthai ^a   Zimmer, John P ^a   Stroh, Mark ^b   Steckel, Jonathan S ^a   Jain, Rakesh K ^b   Bawendi, Moungi G ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY;

COLOR-LIGHT-EMITTING; NUMBER DENSITY; NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); PHOTOSTABILITY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 11344278587     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400237     Document Type: Article

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