A Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe Based on FRET for Imaging Hg2+ Ions in Living Cells
About: This article is published in Angewandte Chemie.The article was published on 2008-10-06. It has received 766 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Förster resonance energy transfer & Mercury (element).
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