Chapter 8 Ultrafast Fluorescence Spectroscopy via Upconversion. Applications to Biophysics

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 450, Issue , 2008, Pages 159-183

  Xu, Jianhua ^a   Knutson, Jay R ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN; NUCLEIC ACID; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

BIOPHYSICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY;

BIOPHYSICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 58249130415     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)03408-3     Document Type: Review

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