Fluorophore-Metal Nanoparticle Interactions and Their Applications in Biosensing

Complex-Shaped Metal Nanoparticles: Bottom-Up Syntheses and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 395-427

  Klar, Thomas A ^a,b   Feldmann, Jochen ^b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Biosensing; Fluorescence; Fluorophores; Metal nanoparticles; Spectral tunability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882373300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527652570.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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