Tracking Trace Amounts of Submicrometer Silica Particles in Wastewaters and Activated Sludge Using Silica-Encapsulated DNA Barcodes

Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 484-489

  Grass, Robert N ^a   Schälchli, Jeremy ^a   Paunescu, Daniela ^a   Soellner, Justus O B ^a   Kaegi, Ralf ^b   Stark, Wendelin J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84969194774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ez5003506     Document Type: Article

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