This volume incorporates authoritative small molecule analytical fluorescence sensing reviews specialized enough to be attractive to professional researchers, yet also appealing to the wider audience of scientists in related disciplines of fluorescence.

Advanced Concepts in Fluorescence Sensing Part A: Small Molecule Sensing is an essential reference for any lab working in the analytical fluorescence sensing field. All academics, bench scientists, and industry professionals wishing to take advantage of the latest and greatest in the continuously emerging field of fluorescence sensing will find it an invaluable resource.

Advanced Concepts in Fluorescence Sensing Part A: Small Molecule Sensing topics include:

Probes for Anion and Cation Sensing

Fluorescent Carbon Dioxide Indicators

Fluorescent Redox-Switchable Devices

PET based Fluorescence Sensors

Oxygen Sensing

Fluorescence Sensing using Charge Transfer Probes

Fluorescence-based Nitric Oxide Detection

About the Editors:

Chris D. Geddes is an Associate Professor of Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Director of the Institute of Fluorescence, and Associate Director of the Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Medical Biotechnology Center, Baltimore. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fluorescence and both the Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the Who's Who in Fluorescence and Reviews in Fluorescence annual volumes, as well as Executive Director of the Society ofFluorescence. Dr Geddes has published over 100 scientific articles, papers, review articles, books and book chapters on the principles and applications of fluorescence.

Joseph R. Lakowicz is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore and Director of the Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Dr. Lakowicz has published over 400 scientific articles, has edited numerous books, holds 16 issued patents, and is the author of the widely used text, Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy.