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Publication - Size-Independent Energy Transfer

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Patrick Parkinson

24 May 2016

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Our new manuscript has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano. The study, “Size-Independent Energy Transfer in Biomimetic Nanoring Complexes” was conducted with colleagues at the University of Oxford Physics (Herz Group) and Chemistry (Anderson Group).

For more details, see the ASAP article at doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b01265.

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