Metal-free highly luminescent silica nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 8190-8196

  Brites, Carlos D S ^a   Freitas, Vânia T ^a   Ferreira, Rute A S ^a   Millán, Angel ^b   Palacio, Fernando ^b   Carlos, Luís D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING EFFECTS; AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; BIOLABELS; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; EMISSION QUANTUM YIELD; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; ORGANOSILANES; ORGANOSILICAS; OXYGEN DEFECT; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; RED-SHIFTED; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SILICA NETWORKS; STEADY-STATE REGIME; TIME-RESOLVED EMISSION SPECTRA; WHITE LIGHT;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; METALS; QUANTUM YIELD; SILICA;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE; ORGANOSILICON DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

LUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861649382     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la300288j     Document Type: Article

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