Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been developed for decades and are
widely applied in biosensing/imaging. However, their biosensing/imaging applications are …

The efficient and sensitive detection of pathogenic microorganisms in aqueous
environments, such as water used in medical applications, drinking water, and cooling water …

Secreted proteins provide abundant functional information on living cells and can be used
as important tumor diagnostic markers, of which profiling at the single‐cell level is helpful for …

Fluorescent dye based nanoparticles (NPs) have received increased interest due to their
high brightness and stability. In fluorescence microscopy and assays, high signal to …

Photonic barcodes have attracted extensive attention due to their promising applications in
multiplexed high throughput bioassays, item tracking, information security, etc. Organic …

To demonstrate the potential of time-resolved flow cytometry (FCM) for bioanalysis, clinical
diagnostics, and optically encoded bead-based assays, we performed a proof-of-principle …

Ternary quantum dots (QDs) are very promising nanomaterials with a range of potential
applications in photovoltaics, light-emitting devices, and biomedicine. Despite quite …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into polymer microbeads are known to be
very attractive emitters for spectral multiplexing and colour encoding. Their luminescence …

Fluorescent labels have strongly contributed to many advancements in bioanalysis,
molecular biology, molecular imaging, and medical diagnostics. Despite a large toolbox of …

This chapter focuses on applications and protocols that involve the measurement of the
fluorescence lifetime as an informative cytometric parameter. The timing of fluorescence …