Amalgamation based optical and colorimetric sensing of mercury(II) ions with silver@graphene oxide nanocomposite materials

Microchimica Acta

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 369-377

  Zangeneh Kamali, Khosro ^a   Pandikumar, Alagarsamy ^a   Jayabal, Subramaniam ^a   Ramaraj, Ramasamy ^a,b   Lim, Hong Ngee ^c   Ong, Boon Hoong ^a   Bien, Chia Sheng Daniel ^d   Kee, Yeh Yee ^e   Huang, Nay Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d Hampshire Place Office ^*  (Malaysia)

^e Grid Computing and Bioinformatics Lab   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Energy dispersive X ray spectroscopy; Localized surface plasmon resonance; Silver nanoparticles; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy; X ray powder diffraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953364532     PISSN: 00263672     EISSN: 14365073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00604-015-1658-6     Document Type: Article

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