Carbon nanoparticle-based fluorescent bioimaging probes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bhunia, Susanta Kumar ^a   Saha, Arindam ^a   Maity, Amit Ranjan ^a   Ray, Sekhar C ^b   Jana, Nikhil R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875843217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01473     Document Type: Article

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