Luminescent Small Molecules for Biochemistry
A special issue of Colorants (ISSN 2079-6447).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2498
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular photophysics; solar fuels; microscopy; bio-imaging; fluorescent probes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bio-sensing is critical to medical diagnostics and drug design. The current state of the art techniques in microscopy improve the sensitivity and precision in the detection of analytes, and also help to probe the sub-cellular environment. Luminescent small molecules and nanoparticles (NPs) play a vital role in these developments. The uses of such molecules range from nanomachines for cancer treatment to detection of cellular distress, for example hypoxia.
This Special Issue of Colorants will highlight the range of different applications of luminescent small molecules and NPs for bio-chemical and bio-medical applications. We hope to demonstrate the breadth of potential applications of these systems and the cutting-edge science in this field, including the design, synthesis, photophysical analysis, and bio-imaging.
Dr. Patrycja Stachelek
Dr. Joshua Karlsson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- luminescence
- fluorescence
- phosphorescence
- photodynamic therapy
- bio-probes
- photophysics
- bio-sensing
- microscopy
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