title: Silver-enhanced fluorescence emission of single quantum dot nanocomposites.
abstract: A novel plasmon-coupled quantum dot (QD) nanocomposite via covalently interfacing the QD surfaces with silver nanoparticles was developed with greatly reduced blinking and enhanced emission fluorescence.
authors.affiliation: Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lakowicz
mesh_terms: D005453:Fluorescence; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles; D053761:Nanocomposites / Q000737:chemistry*; D045663:Quantum Dots; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012834:Silver