Enhanced single-particle brightness and photostability of semiconductor polymer dots by enzymatic oxygen scavenging system

Optical Materials

Volumn 62, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-6

  Liu, Zhihe ^a   Yang, Yingkun ^a   Sun, Zezhou ^a   Wu, Changfeng ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Oxygen scavenging system; Photostability; Semiconductor polymer dots; Single particle imaging

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OXYGEN; PHOTOBLEACHING; POLYMERS; SCAVENGING;

BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; NANOPRECIPITATION METHOD; OXYGEN SCAVENGING SYSTEMS; PHOTO-STABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR POLYMERS; SINGLE PARTICLE; SINGLE PARTICLE TRACKING; TRACKING APPLICATION;

LUMINANCE;

EID: 84991107753     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2016.09.046     Document Type: Article

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