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Applied Fluorescence in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Wolfgang Rettig

    1. Institut für Chemie Fach-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Bernd Strehmel

    1. Center for Photochemical Sciences Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

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  3. Sigurd Schrader

    1. Institut für Physik Lehrstuhl für Physik kondensierter Materie, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  4. Holger Seifert

    1. Institut für Chemie Fach-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Methods and Trends in Fluorescence Spectroscopy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Spectroscopy in Random Media

      • T. L. Troy, E. M. Sevick-Muraca
      Pages 3-38

    3. Single-Molecule Detection in Biology with Multiplex Dyes and Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers

      • M. Sauer, J. Wolfrum
      Pages 39-58

    4. Time-Resolved Fluorescence of Conjugated Polymers

      • H. Bässler, M. Hopmeier, R. F. Mahrt
      Pages 59-78

    5. Low-Temperature Photophysics of Permethylated n-Heptasilane: The Borderline Between Excitation Localization and Delocalization in a Conjugated Chain

      • M. K. Raymond, Th. F. Magnera, I. Zharov, R. West, B. Dreczewski, A. J. Nozik et al.
      Pages 79-99

    6. Characterization of Membrane Mimetic Systems with Fluorescence

      • M. Hink, A. J. W. G. Visser
      Pages 101-118

    7. Excited State Probing of Supramolecular Systems on a Submicron Scale

      • P. Vanoppen, J. Hofkens, L. Latterini, K. Jeuris, H. Faes, F. C. De Schryver et al.
      Pages 119-136

    8. Three-Photon Excitation of Fluorescence

      • J. R. Lakowicz, I. Gryczynski
      Pages 137-157

  3. Analytical Flourescence Probes, and Environment Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Fluorescence Properties of Crown-Containing Molecules

      • M. V. Alfimov, S. P. Gromov
      Pages 161-178

    3. Recent Developments in Luminescent PET (Photoinduced Electron Transfer) Sensors and Switches

      • A. Prasanna de Silva, A. J. M. Huxley
      Pages 179-192

    4. Photostability of Fluorescent Dyes for Single-Molecule Spectroscopy: Mechanisms and Experimental Methods for Estimating Photobleaching in Aqueous Solution

      • C. Eggeling, J. Widengren, R. Rigler, C. A. M. Seidel
      Pages 193-240

    5. Analysis of Chemical Dynamics and Technical Combustion by Time-Resolved Laser-Induced Fluorescence

      • H.-R. Volpp, C. Schulz, J. Wolfrum
      Pages 241-275

    6. Fluorescence Techniques for Probing Molecular Interactions in Imprinted Polymers

      • O. S. Wolfbeis, E. Terpetschnig, S. Piletsky, E. Pringsheim
      Pages 277-295
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The light of the sun - the source of life and a god in ancient times - was always associated with warmth or even burning heat. When man learnt to tame fire, he had another source of light, which was also hot. All the more puzzling for the amazed observer has been the dance of fireflies glimmering in the dark. How can an animal emit light? Or what about the faint glow of walls in some pre­ historic tombs due to luminescent bacteria? This sort of "cold light" is known today as chemiluminescence. A related phenomenon is the aurora borealis with its swiftly moving curtains oflight. This is a special sort of electroluminescence, of "cold light". another kind The basis of "hot light" is the thermal generation of electronically excited states (normally of atoms or ions). The source of "cold light", on the other hand, is the chemical or electrochemical generation of excited states, possible also for larger molecules. By using light instead of chemical or electrical energy, we can generate yet another type of "cold light", the ordinary luminescence: fluo­ rescence or phosphorescence. The possibilities here have increased enormously because we can color-tune the exciting light and gain specificity, and we can modulate it in time or even in polarization opening new dimensions of research and applications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Chemie Fach-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Rettig, Holger Seifert

  • Center for Photochemical Sciences Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

    Bernd Strehmel

  • Institut für Physik Lehrstuhl für Physik kondensierter Materie, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Sigurd Schrader

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