Artistic Representation of Several Microtubules (IMAGE)

Technische Universität Dresden

Artistic Representation of Several Microtubules

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Artistic representation of several microtubules, gliding through the optical near field (blue) of a nanostructured gold surface. The quantum dots (green) attached to the microtubules react to the local field by increasing their fluorescence rate.

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Heiko Gross

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