Metal-enhanced fluorescence: potential applications in HTS.
Metallic surfaces and particles can have dramatic effects on fluorescence, including localized excitation, increased quantum yields, increased photostability and increased distances for resonance energy transfer (RET), and directional emission. While all these effects have not yet been realized in a single system, metal-enhanced fluorescence promises to provide the next generation of high sensitivity fluorescence assays for low copy number detection of biochemical species.
Geddes
Chris D
CD
Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Gryczynski
Ignacy
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Malicka
Joanna
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Gryczynski
Zygmunt
Z
Lakowicz
Joseph R
JR
D000465:Algorithms; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000379:methods*; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D010600:Pharmacology; D011789:Quantum Theory
D008670:Metals; D004247:DNA