Springer, 2010. - 393 p. - This volume is focused on one of the
most important challenges in sensing and imaging technologies: the
design of fluorescence reporters with advanced properties. Here
organic dyes occupy leading positions, in tough competition with
novel materials such as metal chelating complexes and semiconductor
nanoparticles. 11 chapters written by top experts in the field show
new possibilities in the design of organic dyes as fluorescent
labels and reporters. They particularly highlight the progress that
has been made in enhancing the response to intermolecular
interactions and their excited-state reaction dynamics
(intramolecular charge and proton transfers), and on the
development of dyes with strong two-photon absorption and emitting
in the near-IR region. Furthermore, fluorophores incorporated into
new members of the green fluorescent protein family, an invaluable
tool for live cell imaging, are examined.