Fluorescent noble metal nanodots for biological applications

Commercial organic dyes are widely used for cellular staining due to their small size, high brightness, and chemical functionality. However, their blinking and photobleaching are not ideal for studying dynamics inside live cells. An improvement over organics and much larger quantum dots, silver nano...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Choi, Sungmoon
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2011
Subjects:
DNA
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37195