Applied Fluorescence in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine

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

4. Fluorescence Probes in Polymers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297

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   2. Advanced Light Emitting Dyes: Monomers, Oligomers, and Polymers

      • Y. Geerts, K. Müllen

      Pages 299-324

   3. Fluorescence Probes in Polymers and Liquid Crystals: Complex Macromolecular Chain Dynamics (Proposal from the Far East)

      • H. Ushiki

      Pages 325-370

   4. Fluorescence Method for Monitoring Gelation and Gel Swelling in Real Time

      • O. Pekcan, Y. Yilmaz

      Pages 371-387

   5. Photophysical Studies Provide Thermodynamic Insights into Block-Copolymer Micelle Formation in a Selective Solvent

      • C. W. Frank, D. Y. Ylitalo

      Pages 389-413

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.

• Monitoring
• Trend
• biology
• chemistry
• imaging
• laser
• microscopy
• semiconductor
• sensor
• sensors
• spectroscopy
• stability
• temperature

• 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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