Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Lei Hou on the following paper: "Luminescence from Collapsing Centimeter Bubbles Expanded by Chemical Reaction" by Jérôme Duplat and Emmanuel Villermaux Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (2015) 094501

Samy Merabia Institut Lumière Matière-ILM and Claude Bernard Lyon I University “Nanobubbles around laser-heated nanoparticles” For more information on his recent research in this topic, please refer to the following papers: Kinetics of Nanobubble Generation Around Overheated Nanoparticles. Lombard, J, Biben, T, Merabia, S, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 105701 (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.105701) Nanobubbles around plasmonic nanoparticles: Thermodynamic analysis. Lombard, J, Biben, T, Merabia, S, Phys. Rev. E 91 (2015) 043007 (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.043007)

1. Olga Iendaltseva: “Force sensing and transmission in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived pericytes” 2. Pravin Kumar: “Long-range distance constraints for the ?-synuclein fibril structure from pulsed EPR”

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Biswajit Pradhan on the following paper: “Two-Photon Lifetime Imaging of Voltage Indicating Proteins as a Probe of Absolute Membrane Voltage” by Daan Brinks, Aaron J. Klein, and Adam E. Cohen Biophysical Journal, September 2015 doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.07.038 4. Group photograph outside (weather-dependent, Aquiles official group photographer)

Optical Investigation of Single Perylene Diimides and their Application as Sensitive Probes in Soft Matter Science Stefan Krause One of the most suited probe molecule for soft matter investigations on a single molecule level is the perylene diimide-type system (PDI). This class of fluorophores features high quantum efficiency and photo stability. The emission properties of these dyes strongly depend on their backbone conformation which can be influenced by various functional groups. By choosing two types of environment - a clear…

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Weichun Zhangon the following paper: "Single-Band 2-nm-Line-Width Plasmon Resonance in a Strongly Coupled Au Nanorod", by Pan Wang, Yipei Wang, Zongyin Yang, Xin Guo, Xing Lin, Xiao-Chong Yu, Yun-Feng Xiao, Wei Fang, Lei Zhang, Guowei Lu, Qihuang Gong, and Limin Tong. Nano Letters, Article ASAP, October 19, 2015 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03330

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Thomas Jollans on the following paper: Electric Field Modulation of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Photoluminescence: Insights Into the Design of Robust Voltage-Sensitive Cellular Imaging Probes by Clare E. Rowland, Kimihiro Susumu, Michael H. Stewart, Eunkeu Oh, Antti J. Mäkinen, Thomas J. O’Shaughnessy, Gary Kushto, Mason A. Wolak, Jeffrey S. Erickson, Alexander L. Efros, Alan L. Huston, and James…

Weekly meeting of the Single-Molecule Optics group Agenda 1. General information 2. Round table of recent results and news 3. Literature report by Lei Hou on the following paper: Discrete Intensity Jumps and Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer in the Spectroscopy of Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules by David A. Vanden Bout, Wai-Tak Yip, Dehong Hu, Dian-Kui Fu, Timothy M. Swager, Paul F. Barbara Science, 277(5329), 1074-1077 DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5329.1074