100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Enabling Advances In Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-15-2020

School

Polymer Science and Engineering

Abstract

Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society. In the past few decades there has been a revolution in the field of optical microscopy with emerging capabilities such as super-resolution and single-molecule fluorescence techniques. Combined with the classical advantages of fluorescence imaging, such as chemical labeling specificity, and noninvasive sample preparation and imaging, these methods have enabled significant advances in our polymer community. This Viewpoint discusses several of these capabilities and how they can uniquely offer information where other characterization techniques are limited. Several examples are highlighted that demonstrate the ability of fluorescence microscopy to understand key questions in polymer science such as single-molecule diffusion and orientation, 3D nanostructural morphology, and interfacial and multicomponent dynamics. Finally, we briefly discuss opportunities for further advances in techniques that may allow them to make an even greater contribution in polymer science.

Publication Title

ACS Macro Letters

Volume

9

Issue

9

First Page

1342

Last Page

1356

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