Defocused Wide‐field Imaging Unravels Structural and Temporal Heterogeneity in Complex Systems

• Published in: Advanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 21; no. 10‐11; pp. 1079 - 1090
• Main Authors: Dedecker, Peter, Muls, Benoît, Deres, Ania, Uji‐i, Hiroshi, Hotta, Jun‐ichi, Sliwa, Michel, Soumillion, Jean‐Philippe, Müllen, Klaus, Enderlein, Jörg, Hofkens, Johan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY‐VCH Verlag 20.03.2009; Wiley-VCH Verlag
• Subjects: Chemical Sciences; Chromophores; Conjugated polymers; Defocused wide‐field imaging; Energy transfer; Fluorescence; Nanostructuring; or physical chemistry; Polyphenylene dendrimers; Single‐molecule imaging; Theoretical and; Conjugated polymers; Single-molecule imaging; Nanostructuring; Defocused wide-field imaging; Fluorescence; Chromophores; Energy transfer; Polyphenylene dendrimers

Today's miniature devices and biological systems share the fact that their dynamics and properties cannot be understood in terms of macroscopic concepts, but require a thorough understanding of the nanoscale structuring. This structuring is often very heterogeneous, both in time and in space, a...