Interaction of theory and experiment: Examples from single molecule studies of nanoparticles

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1914, 2010, Pages 1109-1124

  Marcus, Rudolph A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence intermittency; Nanoparticles; Quantum dots; Reaction diffusion equation; Single molecule studies

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ANALYTIC APPROACH; BIOLOGICAL SPECIES; CHEMICAL PHENOMENAS; COMPUTER CALCULATION; FLUORESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE; INTERIM REPORTS; ORGANIC NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM DOT; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES; SURFACE STATE; THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77449085994     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0261     Document Type: Review

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