Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas
E-Mail IMAGE: (a) Schematic of double-bar nano-antenna coated with AIEE1000 molecules (black double ended arrows) in PMMA (light blue) on glass substrate (light grey). Inset shows the chemical structure of AIEE1000. (b-g)... view more Credit: by Wenqi Zhao, Xiaochaoran Tian, Zhening Fang, Shiyi Xiao, Meng Qiu, Qiong He, Wei Feng, Fuyou Li, Yuanbo Zhang, Lei Zhou, and Yan-Wen Tan Single-molecule fluorescence detection (SMFD) is able to probe, one molecule at a time, dynamical processes that are crucial for understanding functional mechanisms in biosystems. Fluorescence in the Near-...
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