Cyanine dyes in biophysical research: the photophysics of polymethine fluorescent dyes in biomolecular environments

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics (print)

• Publication date

  2010-11-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1017/S0033583510000247PMID 21108866
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