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Chem. Commun., 2006, 1433 - 1435, DOI: 10.1039/b518091k

Luminescent nanobeads: attachment of surface reactive Eu(III) complexes to gold nanoparticles

David J. Lewis, Thomas M. Day, Julie V. MacPherson and Zoe Pikramenou

Gold nanoparticles were used as a scaffold to assemble multiple tailor-made europium(III) complexes yielding water-soluble gold nanoparticles that display red, EuIII, luminescence.

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