Optical properties of zno nanoparticles capped with polymers

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1132-1143

  Tachikawa, Shingo ^a   Noguchi, Atsushi ^a   Tsuge, Takeharu ^a   Hara, Masahiko ^a   Odawara, Osamu ^a   Wada, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capping; Fluorescence; Nanoparticle; Polyethylene glycol; Polyvinyl pyrrolidone; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

BIO-IMAGING; CAPPING; CAPPING REAGENTS; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; POLY VINYL PYRROLIDONE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG); SURFACE PASSIVATION; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

FLUORESCENCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; ZINC OXIDE;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 80052653691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4061132     Document Type: Article

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