The chemistry of organic nanomaterials

AC Grimsdale, K Müllen - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The development of nanotechnology using organic materials is one of the most intellectually
and commercially exciting stories of our times. Advances in synthetic chemistry and in …

Branching out of single‐molecule fluorescence spectroscopy: Challenges for chemistry and influence on biology

P Tinnefeld, M Sauer - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade emerging single‐molecule fluorescence‐spectroscopy tools have been
developed and adapted to analyze individual molecules under various conditions. Single …

Synthesis and applications of core-enlarged perylene dyes

Y Avlasevich, C Li, K Müllen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Perylene dyes not only feature high chemical and photochemical stability, high molar
absorptivities and fluorescence quantum yields but also offer wide possibilities for chemical …

From industrial colorants to single photon sources and biolabels: The fascination and function of rylene dyes

A Herrmann, K Müllen - Chemistry Letters, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Perylene dyes are key chromophores in dyestuff chemistry. The solubility, absorption, and
emission behavior of this class of materials can be efficiently controlled by functionalization …

Single-molecule spectroscopy of interfacial electron transfer

MW Holman, R Liu, DM Adams - Journal of the American …, 2003 - ACS Publications
It is widely appreciated that single-molecule spectroscopy (SMS) can be used to measure
properties of individual molecules which would normally be obscured in an ensemble …

Conformational rearrangements in and twisting of a single molecule

J Hofkens, T Vosch, M Maus, F Köhn, M Cotlet… - Chemical Physics …, 2001 - Elsevier
Single molecule spectroscopy is used to obtain detailed information on the photophysical
properties of immobilized perylenediimide-based molecules, substituted in the bay …

Photophysical dynamics of single molecules studied by spectrally-resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (SFLIM)

P Tinnefeld, DP Herten, M Sauer - The Journal of Physical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
A new scanning technique for simultaneous recording of intensity, fluorescence lifetime, and
spectral information with single molecule sensitivity is presented. We investigated and …

Fluorescence intermittency from the main plant light-harvesting complex: sensitivity to the local environment

TPJ Krüger, C Ilioaia, L Valkunas… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The time-resolved fluorescence intensity fluctuations from single, immobilized complexes of
the main light-harvesting complex (LHCII) of plants were investigated in different pH …

Die Chemie organischer Nanomaterialien

AC Grimsdale, K Müllen - Angewandte Chemie, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Die Entwicklung der Nanotechnologie mit organischen Materialien schreibt eine
der größten intellektuellen, aber auch kommerziellen Erfolgsgeschichten unserer Zeit …

Imaging of tautomerism in a single molecule

H Piwoński, C Stupperich, A Hartschuh… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence imaging is used to visualize directly the transfer of two inner hydrogen atoms
in single porphycene molecules. This reaction leads to a chemically equivalent but …