Luminescent chemosensors based on silica nanoparticles

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 300, Issue , 2011, Pages 93-138

  Bonacchi, Sara ^a   Genovese, Damiano ^a   Juris, Riccardo ^a   Montalti, Marco ^a   Prodi, Luca ^a   Rampazzo, Enrico ^a   Sgarzi, Massimo ^a   Zaccheroni, Nelsi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemical sensors; Fluorescence; Luminescence; Signal amplification; Silica nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY;

LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79955624318     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128_2010_104     Document Type: Article

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