Advanced Immobilization and Amplification for High Performance Protein Chips

Analytical Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 130-155

  Liu, Yingshuai ^a,b   Li, Chang Ming ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Performance improvement; Protein chips; Protein immobilization; Review; Signal amplification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863042566     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2011.633187     Document Type: Article

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