Recent advances in silicon nanomaterial-based fluorescent sensors

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Wang, Houyu ^a   He, Yao ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Sensors; Silicon nanomaterials

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHEMICAL DETECTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SENSORS; SILICON; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; FLUORESCENT SENSORS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; SILICON NANO STRUCTURES; SILICON NANOPARTICLES; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON-BASED; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 85012041139     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17020268     Document Type: Review

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