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ArticleScientific reports2016

Subsurface Super-resolution Imaging of Unstained Polymer Nanostructures.

Ben E Urban, Biqin Dong, The-Quyen Nguyen, Vadim Backman, Cheng Sun, Hao F Zhang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Spectroscopic analysis beyond the diffraction limit.The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology · 2018
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  8. Superresolution intrinsic fluorescence imaging of chromatin utilizing native, unmodified nucleic acids for contrast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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6 authors.

Ben E UrbanNorthwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Evanston, 60208, USA.
Biqin DongNorthwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Evanston, 60208, USA.
The-Quyen NguyenNorthwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Evanston, 60208, USA.
Vadim BackmanNorthwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Evanston, 60208, USA.
Cheng SunNorthwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Evanston, 60208, USA.
Hao F ZhangNorthwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Evanston, 60208, USA.

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Daniela E Matei · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Novel Antiangiogenic Peptides for Treatment of Exudative AMDR24EY022883 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SHEIBANI, NADER · 2013 to 2017
$6.2M
Multimodal Retinal Functional Imaging for Diabetic RetinopathyR01EY019951 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FAWZI, AMANI A, JIAO, SHULIANG · 2011 to 2015
$3.0M
Nanoscale/Molecular analysis of Fecal Colonocytes for Colorectal Cancer ScreeningR01CA165309 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BACKMAN, VADIM, ROY, HEMANT K. · 2012 to 2016
$2.8M
Functional Retinal Imaging to Monitor Pharmaco-Therapies in Diabetic RetinopathyDP3DK108248 · NIDDK · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI FAWZI, AMANI A, ZHANG, HAO F · 2015 to 2015
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NCI NIH HHS R01 CA165309NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019951NEI NIH HHS R24 EY022883NIDDK NIH HHS DP3 DK108248
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical imaging has offered unique advantages in material researches, such as spectroscopy and lifetime measurements of deeply embedded materials, which cannot be matched using electron or scanning-probe microscopy. Unfortunately, conventional optical imaging cannot provide the spatial resolutions necessary for many nanoscopic studies. Despite recent rapid progress, super-resolution optical imaging has yet to be widely applied to non-biological materials. Herein we describe a method for nanoscopic optical imaging of buried polymer nanostructures without the need for extrinsic staining. We observed intrinsic stochastic fluorescence emission or blinking from unstained polymers and performed spatial-temporal spectral analysis to investigate its origin. We further applied photon localization super-resolution imaging reconstruction to the detected stochastic blinking, and achieved a spatial resolution of at least 100 nm, which corresponds to a six-fold increase over the optical diffraction limit. This work demonstrates the potential for studying the static heterogeneities of intrinsic polymer molecular-specific properties at sub-diffraction-limited optical resolutions.

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Microscopy, FluorescenceNanostructuresOptical ImagingPolymersStochastic ProcessesPolymers

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PMID27354178
PMCPMC4926209

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