Gold nanospikes based microsensor as a highly accurate mercury emission monitoring system

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sabri, Ylias M ^a   Ippolito, Samuel J ^a   Tardio, James ^a   Bansal, Vipul ^a   O'Mullane, Anthony P ^b   Bhargava, Suresh K ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; GOLD; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MERCURY; METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84920842610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06741     Document Type: Article

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