Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands
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...substance (fluorophore) that has absorbed light or electromagnetic radiation at another wavelength (Heinrichs,...Heinrichs, 2009). When a fluorophore absorbs light, electrons are elevated from a ground state to an excited state...After a brief elevation in this excited state, the electron returns to its ground state by emitting a photon...