General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Sheng ^a   Bai, Min ^a   Wang, Leyu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CELL TRACKING; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; EMULSION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; PH; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL TRACKING; EMULSIONS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84879623064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02023     Document Type: Article

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