Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18810279›Full record

ReviewThe Analyst2008

Plasmon-controlled fluorescence: a new paradigm in fluorescence spectroscopy.

Joseph R Lakowicz, Krishanu Ray, Mustafa Chowdhury, Henryk Szmacinski, Yi Fu, Jian Zhang, Kazimierz Nowaczyk

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In one paragraph

Review in The Analyst, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
112citing papers in PubMed
21.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed, 635 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence for the Biologist's Cellular Imaging Toolkit: Design Principles and Recent Applications.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  4. Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Nanocomplexes.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  12. Synthesis of SiOJournal of fluorescence · 2025
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  19. Nanoscatterer-Assisted Fluorescence Amplification Technique.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  20. Sol-gel synthesis of EuRSC advances · 2023
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52 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph R LakowiczUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 725 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Krishanu Ray
Mustafa Chowdhury
Henryk Szmacinski
Yi Fu
Jian Zhang
Kazimierz Nowaczyk
University of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

Metallic Surfaces and Particles in DNA AnalysisR01HG002655 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LAKOWICZ, JOSEPH R. · 2003 to 2012
$2.8M
Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence and Cardiac MarkersR01EB006521 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LAKOWICZ, JOSEPH R. · 2007 to 2015
$2.7M
Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence SensingR01EB000682 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LAKOWICZ, JOSEPH R. · 2002 to 2006
$1.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS HG002655NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG002655NIBIB NIH HHS EB000682NIBIB NIH HHS EB0065211NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB000682NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB006521
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescence spectroscopy is widely used in biological research. Until recently, essentially all fluorescence experiments were performed using optical energy which has radiated to the far-field. By far-field we mean at least several wavelengths from the fluorophore, but propagating far-field radiation is usually detected at larger macroscopic distances from the sample. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the interactions of fluorophores with metallic surfaces or particles. Near-field interactions are those occurring within a wavelength distance of an excited fluorophore. The spectral properties of fluorophores can be dramatically altered by near-field interactions with the electron clouds present in metals. These interactions modify the emission in ways not seen in classical fluorescence experiments. In this review we provide an intuitive description of the complex physics of plasmons and near-field interactions. Additionally, we summarize the recent work on metal-fluorophore interactions and suggest how these effects will result in new classes of experimental procedures, novel probes, bioassays and devices.

Indexed as

Surface Plasmon ResonanceColloidsMetalsMicroscopy, FluorescenceNanostructuresColloidsMetals

Identifiers

PMID18810279
PMCPMC2710039
OpenAlexW2164756117

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