One-colour control of activation, excitation and deactivation of a fluorescent diarylethene derivative in super-resolution microscopy

Yuhei Arai; Syoji Ito; Hajime Fujita; Yusuke Yoneda; Takahiro Kaji; Satoshi Takei; Ryota Kashihara; Masakazu Morimoto; Masahiro Irie; Hiroshi Miyasaka

doi:10.1039/c6cc10073b

One-colour control of activation, excitation and deactivation of a fluorescent diarylethene derivative in super-resolution microscopy

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Apr 6;53(29):4066-4069. doi: 10.1039/c6cc10073b.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan. sito@chem.es.osaka-u.ac.jp miyasaka@chem.es.osaka-u.ac.jp.
² Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 588-2 Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-2492, Japan.
³ Eco-material Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Research Center for Smart Molecules, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan. iriem@rikkyo.ac.jp.

PMID: 28243634
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc10073b

Abstract

We demonstrated one-colour control of activation, excitation and deactivation of a fluorescent diarylethene derivative by using a 532 nm CW laser at a weak output power. This one-colour control method was applied to single-molecule tracking in polymer films over a total duration of a few hours at room temperature and PALM for the nanostructures of polymer systems.