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Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, USA
E-mail: yfu@umaryland.edu
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 9726-9728
DOI:
10.1039/C2CC34025A
Received
05 Jun 2012,
Accepted
11 Aug 2012
First published online
13 Aug 2012
We investigated the effect of plasmon-enhanced fluorescence using hollow silver nanoshells and observed enhancement of a single probe's fluorescence up to a factor of 3 orders of magnitude. The enhancement of the quantum efficiency is attributed to enhanced absorption and increased radiative decay rate.
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