Surfactant-mediated fabrication of optical nanoprobes

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-233

  Sharma, Parvesh ^a,b   Brown, Scott ^a   Varshney, Manoj ^a,c   Moudgil, Brij ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 53349103310     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12_2008_166     Document Type: Review

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