Isolation and characterization of trioxyethylene-encapsulated gold nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 737-740

  Jhaveri, Sulay D ^b   Foos, Edward E ^a   Lowy, Daniel A ^b   Chang, Eddie L ^a   Snow, Arthur W ^a   Ancona, Mario G ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Nova Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GOLD; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 2342527946     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0499591     Document Type: Article

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