Ultrasmall Ag+-rich nanoclusters as highly efficient nanoreservoirs for bacterial killing

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 301-307

  Yuan, Xun ^a   Setyawati, Magdiel I ^a   Leong, David T ^a   Xie, Jianping ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

antimicrobial agent; bacteria; biomedicine; noble metal nanoclusters; silver

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897023162     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0395-6     Document Type: Article

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