Multifunctional photonic nanomaterials for diagnostic, therapeutic, and theranostic applications

H Kim, S Beack, S Han, M Shin, T Lee… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The last decade has seen dramatic progress in the principle, design, and fabrication of
photonic nanomaterials with various optical properties and functionalities. Light‐emitting …

An engineer's introduction to mechanophores

N Deneke, ML Rencheck, CS Davis - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanophores (MPs) are a class of stimuli-responsive materials that are of increasing
interest to engineers due to their potential applications as stress sensors. These …

[HTML][HTML] Any way you slice it—a comparison of confocal microscopy techniques

J Jonkman, CM Brown - Journal of biomolecular techniques: JBT, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The confocal fluorescence microscope has become a popular tool for life sciences
researchers, primarily because of its ability to remove blur from outside of the focal plane of …

Particle tracking of nanoparticles in soft matter

KA Rose, M Molaei, MJ Boyle, D Lee… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Recent advances in optical microscopy instrumentation and processing techniques have led
to imaging that both breaks the diffraction barrier and enables sub-pixel resolution. This …

Imaging methods are vastly underreported in biomedical research

G Marqués, T Pengo, MA Sanders - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
A variety of microscopy techniques are used by researchers in the life and biomedical
sciences. As these techniques become more powerful and more complex, it is vital that …

Review of methods to probe single cell metabolism and bioenergetics

AE Vasdekis, G Stephanopoulos - Metabolic engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Single cell investigations have enabled unexpected discoveries, such as the existence of
biological noise and phenotypic switching in infection, metabolism and treatment. Herein …

Noninvasive light focusing in scattering media using speckle variance optimization

A Boniface, B Blochet, J Dong, S Gigan - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical imaging deep inside scattering media remains a fundamental problem in
bioimaging. While wavefront shaping has been shown to allow focusing of coherent light at …

Life under the microscope: single-molecule fluorescence highlights the RNA world

S Ray, JR Widom, NG Walter - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The emergence of single-molecule (SM) fluorescence techniques has opened up a vast new
toolbox for exploring the molecular basis of life. The ability to monitor individual …

Dynamic contrast optical coherence tomography (DyC-OCT) for label-free live cell imaging

C Ren, S Hao, F Wang, A Matt, MM Amaral… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Dynamic contrast optical coherence tomography (DyC-OCT), an emerging imaging method,
utilizes fluctuation patterns in OCT signals to enhance contrast, thereby enabling non …

Bacterial vivisection: how fluorescence-based imaging techniques shed a light on the inner workings of bacteria

A Cambré, A Aertsen - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The rise in fluorescence-based imaging techniques over the past 3 decades has improved
the ability of researchers to scrutinize live cell biology at increased spatial and temporal …