Non-Förster distance and orientation dependence of energy transfer and applications of fluorescence resonance energy transfer to polymers and nanoparticles: How accurate is the spectroscopic ruler with 1/R6 rule?

Current Science

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1710-1719

  Singh, Harjinder ^a,b   Bagchi, Biman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; F rster expression; FRET; Nanoparticles; Polymers dynamics; Spectroscopic ruler

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644443312     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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