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Published on: August 2, 2012
Super-resolution imaging of self-assembly of amphiphilic photoswitchable macrocycles
Qiong-Xin Hua1, Bo Xin1, Zu-Jing Xiong1
1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China. mqzhu@hust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Self-assembly of an amphiphilic photoswitchable fluorescent macrocycle methoxy-tetraethylene glycol-substituted hexaarylbiimidazole-borondipyrromethene can be observed directly under a super-resolution fluorescence microscope, with the nanoscale resolution beyond the optical diffraction limitation.
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