TY - JOUR
T1 - Progress in single-molecule tracking spectroscopy
AU - Cang, Hu
AU - Shan Xu, C.
AU - Yang, Haw
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098. Thanks to D. Montiel for his critical reading of the manuscript.
Funding Information:
Haw Yang attended National Taiwan University, where he was a Yuan Lee Scholar, and received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1991. After two years of mandatory military service, he attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under the supervision of Charles Harris. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the mechanisms and dynamics of photo-induced chemical bond activation by organometallic compounds. In 1999, he went to Harvard University where he worked with Sunney Xie as a postdoctoral research assistant. It was at this time that he first became involved in research related to single-molecule biophysics. In 2002, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and has received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and the Hellman Family Faculty Award. His current research interest is chemical reactivity in complex systems.
PY - 2008/5/27
Y1 - 2008/5/27
N2 - A topic of much current interest is the chemical reactivity in complex environments, involving dynamical processes spanning multiple scales in both time and space. While challenging to study using standard ensemble-averaged methods, it is amenable to investigations using single-molecule approaches. Ultimately, one would like to monitor the dynamics of individual molecules as they undergo chemical transformations through time-dependent spectroscopic studies, and to correlate various molecular properties with their immediate physical and chemical environments. This article provides an overview of the recent advances toward this goal and describes future developments and potential applications.
AB - A topic of much current interest is the chemical reactivity in complex environments, involving dynamical processes spanning multiple scales in both time and space. While challenging to study using standard ensemble-averaged methods, it is amenable to investigations using single-molecule approaches. Ultimately, one would like to monitor the dynamics of individual molecules as they undergo chemical transformations through time-dependent spectroscopic studies, and to correlate various molecular properties with their immediate physical and chemical environments. This article provides an overview of the recent advances toward this goal and describes future developments and potential applications.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.03.098
DO - 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.03.098
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43549121209
VL - 457
SP - 285
EP - 291
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
SN - 0009-2614
IS - 4-6
ER -