Dual-color nanoscale assemblies of structurally stable, few-atom silver clusters, as reported by fluorescence resonance energy transfer

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 9798-9807

  Schultz, Danielle ^a   Copp, Stacy M ^a   Markešević, Nemanja ^a   Gardner, Kira ^a   Oemrawsingh, Sumant S R ^a   Bouwmeester, Dirk ^a   Gwinn, Elisabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA nanotechnology; fluorescent nanoclusters; fluorescent silver clusters; FRET; metal nanoclusters; nanocluster rods

Indexed keywords

DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY; FLUORESCENT NANOCLUSTERS; FRET; METAL NANOCLUSTERS; SILVER CLUSTER;

DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCAFFOLDS;

ATOMS;

COLORING AGENT; DNA; METAL NANOPARTICLE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RHODAMINE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLORING AGENTS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RHODAMINES; SILVER; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84888877726     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4033097     Document Type: Article

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