Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Red-Light Emitting Au Nanoclusters with the Use of Egg White

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1715-1719

  Tian, Jinghan ^a   Yan, Lei ^a   Sang, Aohua ^b   Yuan, Hongyan ^a   Zheng, Baozhan ^a   Xiao, Dan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical Chemistry; Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Green Chemistry; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Instrumental Methods; Laboratory Instruction; Nanotechnology; Proteins Peptides; Second Year Undergraduate; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924294510     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400605y     Document Type: Article

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