Super-Resolution Radial Fluctuations (SRRF) nanoscopy in the near infrared

Super resolution microscopy methods have been designed to overcome the physical barrier of the diffraction limit and push the resolution to nanometric scales. A recently developed super resolution technique, super-resolution radial fluctuations (SRRF) [Nature communications, 7, 12471 (2016)10.1038/ncomms12471], has been shown to super resolve images taken with standard microscope setups without fluorophore localization. Herein, we implement SRRF on emitters in the near-infrared (nIR) range, single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), whose fluorescence emission overlaps with the biological transparency window. Our results open the path for super-resolving SWCNTs for biomedical imaging and sensing applications.