Molecular Probes

The use of fluorescent compounds as probes is of great importance in different fields because of their ability to provide information on systems at a molecular level. Many applications of fluorescence can be found in the literature, including:

Chromatography
Combinatorial chemistry
Molecular biology and medicine
Chemosensors
Material science

Moreover the advent of fluorescent resonance energy transfer, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescent polarization techniques will boost the application of fluorescent molecular probes in high throughput assays, cellular imaging and for single molecule detection, which are increasingly becoming areas of intense and exciting research.