Concentrating aggregation-induced fluorescence in planar waveguides: A proof-of-principle

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Banal, James L ^a   White, Jonathan M ^a   Ghiggino, Kenneth P ^a   Wong, Wallace W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84901246453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04635     Document Type: Article

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