The submission deadline for the PCCP themed issue on Single-Molecule Optical Studies of Soft and Complex Matter is fast approaching… submit your paper for this exciting issue Guest Edited by Professor Michel Orrit (Leiden University).
Submission deadline: 03 September 2010
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The aim of this issue is to have a comprehensive collection of articles in the expanding field of single-molecule optical studies, with a particular emphasis on soft and complex materials. As well as its great success in biophysics and biology, single-molecule microscopy has the potential to revolutionize our view of soft matter, organized materials, and out-of-equilibrium condensed systems, by displaying their full heterogeneity in time and space to a molecular level.
In recent years, many classes of complex or organized materials have benefited from the advantages of single-molecule optics, including polymers, interfaces and zeolites. In all these systems, experiments have shown that static and dynamic heterogeneities and the spread of molecular parameters are surprisingly large. This knowledge is the missing link between the chemist’s view of the structure and interactions of the molecules and the soft matter physicist‘s view of their mesoscopic organization.
