The field of fluorescence continues to steadily grow, both in its
fundamental aspects and in applications in highly interdisciplinary areas including analytical, physical and organic chemistry, molecular
sciences, biology, biomedicine and medical research. The 4th volume in
the Springer Series on Fluorescence focuses on the fluorescence of
nanosystems, polymers and supermolecules, and the development and
application of fluorescent probes. Special emphasis is placed on the
fluorescence of artificial and biological nanosystems, single molecule
fluorescence and the luminescence of polymers, micro- and nanoparticles and nanotubes. Fluorescence microscopy and fluorescence correlation
spectroscopy are covered as well. Historical aspects of this growing field and an overview of fluorescence applications are also provided.

History and Fundamental Aspects

Early History of Solution Fluorescence: The Lignum nephriticum of Nicolás Monardes
From Well-Known to Underrated Applications of Fluorescence
Principles of Directed Electronic Energy Transfer
Luminescence Decays with Underlying Distributions of Rate Constants: General Properties and Selected Cases
Fluorescence as the Choice Method for Single-Molecule Detection
Molecular and Supramolecular Systems
Water-soluble Fluorescent Chemosensors: in Tune with Protons
Fluorescence of Fullerenes
Squeezing Fluorescent Dyes into Nanoscale Containers-The Supramolecular Approach to Radiative Decay Engineering
Polymers, Semiconductors, Model Membranes and Cells
Resonance Energy Transfer in Polymer Interfaces
Defocused Imaging in Wide-field Fluorescence Microscopy
Dynamics of Excited States and Charge Photogeneration in Organic Semiconductor Materials
Resonance Energy Transfer in Biophysics: Formalisms and Application to Membrane Model Systems
Measuring Diffusion in a Living Cell Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. A Closer Look at Anomalous Diffusion Using HIV-1 Integrase and its Interactions as a Probe
Pushing the Complexity of Model Bilayers: Novel Prospects for Membrane Biophysics
Nanotubes, Microparticles and Nanoparticles
Photoluminescence Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopic Studies of a Single Lipopolyamine-DNA Nanoparticle
Morphology-Dependent Resonance Emission from Individual Micron-Sized Particles
New Plastic Microparticles and Nanoparticles for Fluorescent Sensing and Encoding.