Fluorescent nanoparticles for super-resolution imaging

W Li, GS Kaminski Schierle, B Lei, Y Liu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Super-resolution imaging techniques that overcome the diffraction limit of light have gained
wide popularity for visualizing cellular structures with nanometric resolution. Following the …

Caveat fluorophore: an insiders' guide to small-molecule fluorescent labels

JB Grimm, LD Lavis - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
The last three decades have brought a revolution in fluorescence microscopy. The
development of new microscopes, fluorescent labels and analysis techniques has pushed …

Visible-to-NIR-light activated release: from small molecules to nanomaterials

R Weinstain, T Slanina, D Kand, P Klan - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

Molecular engineering of NIR‐II fluorophores for improved biomedical detection

Z Lei, F Zhang - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of fluorophores for the second near‐infrared window (NIR‐II, 1000–1700
nm) represents an emerging, significant, and vibrant field in analytic chemistry, chemical …

Real-time denoising enables high-sensitivity fluorescence time-lapse imaging beyond the shot-noise limit

X Li, Y Li, Y Zhou, J Wu, Z Zhao, J Fan, F Deng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A fundamental challenge in fluorescence microscopy is the photon shot noise arising from
the inevitable stochasticity of photon detection. Noise increases measurement uncertainty …

Biomedical applications of quantum dots: overview, challenges, and clinical potential

AAH Abdellatif, MA Younis, M Alsharidah… - International journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the massive advancements in the nanomedicines and their associated research,
their translation into clinically-applicable products is still below promises. The latter fact …

Photobleaching of organic fluorophores: quantitative characterization, mechanisms, protection

AP Demchenko - Methods and applications in fluorescence, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Photochemical stability is one of the most important parameters that determine the
usefulness of organic dyes in different applications. This Review addresses key factors that …

Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes

F Balzarotti, Y Eilers, KC Gwosch, AH Gynnå… - Science, 2017 - science.org
We introduce MINFLUX, a concept for localizing photon emitters in space. By probing the
emitter with a local intensity minimum of excitation light, MINFLUX minimizes the …

Toward dynamic structural biology: Two decades of single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer

E Lerner, T Cordes, A Ingargiola, Y Alhadid, SY Chung… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Biomolecular mechanisms are typically inferred from static structural
“snapshots” obtained by x-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

Photomediated ring contraction of saturated heterocycles

J Jurczyk, MC Lux, D Adpressa, SF Kim, Y Lam… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Saturated heterocycles are found in numerous therapeutics and bioactive natural products
and are abundant in many medicinal and agrochemical compound libraries. To access new …