Highly luminescent silver nanoclusters with tunable emissions: Cyclic reduction-decomposition synthesis and antimicrobial properties

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Yuan, Xun ^a   Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid ^a   Tan, Audrey Shu ^a   Ong, Choon Nam ^a   Leong, David Tai ^a   Xie, Jianping ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Biomedical applications; Luminescence; Silver nanoclusters; Thiol ligands

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES; ANTIMICROBIAL; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; LUMINESCENT AG NANOCLUSTERS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS; TUNABLE EMISSIONS;

LIGANDS; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOCLUSTERS;

SILVER;

EID: 84876925192     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2013.3     Document Type: Article

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