Single molecule detection in solution : methods and applications

Obituary.List of Contributors.Single Molecule Detection in Liquids and on Surfaces under Ambient Conditions: Introduction and Historical Overview. Theoretical Foundations of Single Molecule Detection in Solution. Conceptual Basis of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and Related Techniques as Tools in Bioscience. Surface--enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) -- A Tool for Single Molecule Detection in Solution. Single Molecule Detection on Surfaces with the Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope. Spectroscopy of Individual Photosynthetic Pigment--Protein Complexes. Single--Molecule Identification in Solution: Principles and Applications. Studying Molecular Motors on the Single Molecule Level. The Chemistry of a Single Enzyme Molecule. Single Molecule Detection of Specific Nucleic Acid Sequences. Single Molecule Detection in the Near--infrared.Name Index.Subject Index.