Study on the interaction between water-soluble CdTe quantum dots and ovalbumin by optical spectroscopy

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 318-327

  Fan, Xiaoqing ^a   Peng, Juanjuan ^a   Yan, Shuguang ^a   He, Youqiu ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CdTe QDs; fluorescence quenching; ovalbumin; resonance Rayleigh scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957866753     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010.2010.532278     Document Type: Article

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