ArticleNature communications2026
Chem-SIM: SIM-resolved chemical imaging via wide-field mid-infrared photothermal modulation of fluorescence.
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Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has attained high spatiotemporal delineation of subcellular architecture, yet offers limited insight into chemical composition. We develop Chem-SIM, a structured-illumination fluorescence detected mid-infrared photothermal microscopy, for SIM-resolved chemical imaging of microorganisms and mammalian cells. Poisson maximum-likelihood demodulation and spectral normalization across wavenumber recover the weak IR-induced fluorescence intensity change under low photon budgets and convert the fluorescence intensity modulation to chemical fingerprints. Photothermal gating further rejects water backgrounds in aqueous samples, while the IR pump maintains cellular activity at near-physiological temperature. Chem-SIM preserves full vibrational fingerprints, achieves SIM-grade lateral resolution in a high-throughput camera-based format. Here, we show that this platform distinguishes stationary- from log-phase bacteria through chemical content mapping, reports deuterated fatty-acid incorporation in ovarian cancer cells, and resolves lipid-droplet dynamics in live cells, establishing a high-throughput route to high-resolution imaging of organelle chemistry, metabolism, and dynamics.
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