Super-Resolution Microscopy for Material Science [Hardcover]

Chapter 1: Introduction to super-resolution microscopy and its importance for materials science. Chapter 2: Localization Microscopy. Chapter 3: Stimulated emission depletion microscopy. Chapter 4: Structured illumination microscopy (SIM). Chapter 5: Other super-resolution approaches. Chapter 6: Quantitative Analysis for Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy: From PSF to Information. Chapter 7: Single Molecule Localization and Nanoscopy through Sequential Structured Illumination. Chapter 8: Measuring molecule numbers in nano-scale assemblies with single-molecule localization microscopy. Chapter 9: Super-resolution microscopy in colloid science. Chapter 10: SRM application to supramolecular structures. Chapter 11: Super-resolution microscopy application to nanomedicine. Chapter 12: Super-resolution microscopy applications to catalysis. Index.

This book is an ideal guide for researchers in the field of microscopy and materials science and chemistry as well as graduate students studying physics, materials science, biomedical engineering, and chemistry.?

Optical microscopy is one of the most frequently used tools in chemistry and the life sciences. However, its limited resolution hampers the use of optical imaging to many other relevant problems in different disciplines. Super-Resolution Microscopy (SRM) is a new technique that allows the resolution of objects down to a few billionth of meters (nanometers), ten times better than classical microscopes, opening up opportunities to use this tool in new fields.

This book describes the theory, principles, and practice of super-resolution microscopy in the field of materials science and nanotechnology. There is a growing interest in the applications of SRM beyond biology as new synthetic materials, such as nanoscale sensors and catalysts, nanostructured materials, functional polymers, and nanoparticles, have nanoscopic features that are challenging to visualizel#…