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. 2009 Sep 4;7(Suppl 1):S67–S82. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0260

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

When a FRET donor and acceptor are less than 10 nm apart, energy transfer takes place. Otherwise, the acceptor is not excited and does not emit. When a quantum dot acceptor is excited, it emits at a wavelength that overlaps the acceptor absorbance spectra, but not the acceptor emission spectra.