This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Optical microscopy has for centuries been a key tool to study living cells with minimum
invasiveness. The advent of single molecule techniques over the past two decades has …

Recent years have seen a growing interest in using metal nanostructures to control
temperature on the nanoscale. Under illumination at its plasmonic resonance, a metal …

Recent developments have greatly improved the sensitivity of optical sensors based on
metal nanoparticle arrays and single nanoparticles. We introduce the localized surface …

Biomedicine and cell and molecular biology require powerful imaging techniques of the
single molecule scale to the whole organism, either for fundamental science or diagnosis …

This critical review gives a short overview of the widespread use of gold nanoparticles in
biology. We have identified four classes of applications in which gold nanoparticles have …

We introduce a numerical technique to investigate the temperature distribution in arbitrarily
complex plasmonic systems subject to external illumination. We perform both …

Photothermal processes in plasmonic nanoparticles have been at the basis of a decade of
burgeoning activities that set the field of thermoplasmonics. Here, we present an overview of …

Label‐free super‐resolution (LFSR) imaging relies on light‐scattering processes in
nanoscale objects without a need for fluorescent (FL) staining required in super‐resolved FL …

Understanding and controlling the interactions between nanoscale objects and living cells is
of great importance for arising diagnostic and therapeutic applications of nanoparticles and …