Themed collection Recent Developments in Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence

Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence is changing the way we think about and use traditional far-field fluorescence spectroscopy, this special issue discusses the latest trends in this rapidly emerging discipline.

This review focuses on metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF) and its current applications in biotechnology. We predict that the use of computational electromagnetic modelling alongside homogeneous fabrication techniques will lead to predictable and controllable MEF, paving the way for increased applications in biotechnology.

Fluorescence enhanced by metal nanostructures offers advantages for molecular detection methods such as immunoassays, flow cytometry and bioimaging.

Distance dependent singlet and triplet metal-enhanced emission from eosin on silica coated silver island films has been studied by steady-state, time resolved, and numerical FDTD techniques.

Plasmon enhanced single-oxygen ¹O₂ and super oxide O₂⁻* generation by the sensitizers rose bengal and acridine on a silver film.

Comparing the lifetime of phosphorescent and fluorescent dyes in Ag nanoparticle aggregates shows similarities in relative lifetime changes.

The gold nanorods can enhance the fluorescence of conjugated photosensitizer Ce6 and deliver more Ce6 into cancer cells.