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The authors are grateful to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli Ministry of Science for funding their project “Nano-chip platform for water probing pollutants” under the Research Networks Programs 2009–2011 and to the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) for the Programme Stratégique 2009–2012. Kun Jia thanks the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for his PhD fellowship 2010–2013.

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Jia, K., Ionescu, R.E. (2015). Measurement of Bacterial Bioluminescence Intensity and Spectrum: Current Physical Techniques and Principles. In: Thouand, G., Marks, R. (eds) Bioluminescence: Fundamentals and Applications in Biotechnology - Volume 3. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, vol 154. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/10_2015_324

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