Nanoscience of Gold and Gold Surfaces

Gold Chemistry: Applications and Future Directions in the Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 321-356

  Cortie, Michael B ^a   McDonagh, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluorescence and luminescence; Gold chemistry; Gold surfaces; Nanoscience; Nanospheres; Plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890994418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527626724.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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