Optimizing Multiple Analyte Injections in Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors with Analytes having Different Refractive Index Increments.
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SUBMITTER: Mehand MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4626837 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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