Springer, 2010. - 461 p. - This volume demonstrates the novel
possibilities in sensing and imaging offered by the assembly of
organic dyes into nanoparticles and nanocomposites and by the
application of strongly fluorescent noble metal clusters and
conjugated polymers. Its 14 chapters, written by top experts in
this field, provide in-depth information on the coupling of organic
dyes to different molecular and supramolecular structures, on their
incorporation into polymeric nanoparticles and on the
nanostructures that can be formed by some of the dyes. Bright and
photostable several-atom clusters of gold and silver are examined.
Finally, the revolutionary changes in sensing technologies
attending the advent of conjugated polmyers and the advances in
their application are discussed.