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International Journal of Photoenergy
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 547301, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/547301
Research Article

UV-Activated Luminescence/Colourimetric O2 Indicator

Andrew Mills,1 Cheryl Tommons,1 Raymond T. Bailey,1 M. Catriona Tedford,2 and Peter J. Crilly2

1Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Westchem Graduate School of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 1XL, Scotland
2Chemical and Biological Sciences, Bell College of Technology, University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton ML3 0JB, Scotland

Received 26 July 2007; Accepted 6 November 2007

Academic Editor: Russell Howe

Copyright © 2008 Andrew Mills et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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