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W. E. Moerner

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  • Novel fluorophores for single-molecule imaging.

    Willets KA, Ostroverkhova O, He M, Twieg RJ, Moerner WE. J Am Chem Soc. 2003; 125 (5): 1174-5

    Nonlinear optical chromophores based on dicyanodihydrofuran acceptors paired with amine donors have been found to exhibit sufficiently large fluorescence quantum yields and stability to enable single-molecule detection in polymeric hosts. To illustrate the breadth of this class, six fluorophores are presented, spanning the emission range from 505 to 646 nm. In contrast to conventional single-molecule fluorophores, the new molecules feature sensitivity to local rigidity, large ground-state dipole moments, and large polarizability anisotropies, properties that can be used to design new reporter experiments at the single-molecule level.

    PubMedID: 12553812

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