Main description:

During recent years our enthusiasm for this field has continually increased. This book presents expert contributions describing the fundamental principles for the widespread use of radiative decay engineering in the biological sciences and nanotechnology.

Contents:

Preparation of Noble Metal Colloids and Selected Structures.- Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy: Alternative Modes of Use for NSOM Probes.- Nanoparticles with Tunable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances: Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy.- Colloid Surface Chemistry.- Bioanalytical Sensing Using Noble Meal Colloids.- Theory of Fluorophore-Metallic Surface Interactions.- Surface-Enhancement of Fluorescence Near Noble Metal Nanostructures.- Time-Resolved Fluorescence Measurements of Fluorophores Close to Metal Nanoparticles.- Copper Coated Self-Assembled Monolayers: Alkanethiols and Prospective Molecular Wires.- Principles and Applications of Surface-Plasmon Field-Enhanced Fluorescence Techniques.- Optically Detectable Colloidal Metal Labels: Properties, Methods, and Biomedical Applications.- Noble Metal Nanoparticle Biosensors.- Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission: A New Method for Sensitive Fluorescence Detection.- Radiative Decay Engineering (RDE).