Applied fluorescence in chemistry, biology and med

This interdisciplinary book gives a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art: from applications and trends in fluorescence techniques in science to medicine and engineering. The volume is intended for practitioners and researchers in industry and academia. It covers fields like environmental and materials science, biology, medicine, physics and chemistry. Moreover, it reports about new and breathtaking methods like ultra-fast time-resolved or single molecule spectroscopy, gives examples of applications in the fields of electroluminescent polymers, visualization of membrane potentials in neurons or fluorescence imaging of the brain are described by internationally renowned authors