A new class of fluorescent-dots: Long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Guo, Chun Xian ^a   Xie, Jiale ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Zheng, Xinting ^a   Yang, Hong Bin ^b   Li, Chang Ming ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DNA; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; QUANTUM DOTS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898645691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02957     Document Type: Article

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