The microenvironment is indispensable for functionality of various biomacromolecules,
subcellular compartments, living cells, and organisms. In particular, physical properties …

Recently, organic fluorescent molecules harnessing the excited‐state intramolecular proton
transfer (ESIPT) process are drawing great attention due to their unique photophysical …

Charge and proton transfer reactions in the excited states of organic dyes can be coupled in
many different ways. Despite the complementarity of charges, they can occur on different …

Membrane microdomains (rafts) remain one of the controversial issues in biophysics.
Fluorescent molecular probes, which make these lipid nanostructures visible through optical …

The success of fluorescence experiments requires attention to experimental details and an
understanding of the instrumentation. There are also many potential artifacts that can distort …

Fluorescence is the most popular technique in chemical and biological sensing because of
its ultimate sensitivity, high temporal and spatial resolution and versatility that enables …

Cholesterol and sphingomyelin form together a highly ordered membrane phase, which is
believed to play important biological functions in plasma membranes of mammalian cells …

We review the main trends in the development of fluorescence probes to obtain information
about the structure, dynamics, and interactions in biomembranes. These probes are efficient …

Herein, we developed the first ratiometric fluorescent probe for apoptosis detection. This
probe incorporates selectively into the outer leaflet of the cell plasma membrane and senses …

Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) in 3-hydroxyflavone dyes allows us to
record, in addition to common spectroscopic parameters, the positions of absorption (νabs) …