Nanophotonics is an emerging field in modern science and technology that has opened up new horizons for many unique practical applications in various areas ranging from nanoelectronics and material science to biomedicine. In the field of nanobiophotonics, there has been great impetus recently for noninvasive imaging and sensing intracellular structures and functions as well as for obtaining quantitative information for light-tissue interactions at the cellular, intracellular and molecular level. The significant interest in this new nanobiophotonics area is determined by the unique advantages of nanobiophotonics techniques in terms of using non-ionizing radiation, providing noninvasive tissue imaging and sensing with ultrahigh-resolution in the subwavelength nanoscale range (smaller than 100 nm). In this range, however, conventional optical imaging and sensing techniques have a major drawback related to the fundamental Rayleigh diffraction limit.
The focus of the Advanced Nanobiophotonics topical meeting is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for state-of-the-art developments in both fundamental and technological nanobiophotonics areas including the recent progress in nanobiphotonics imaging, sensing, diagnostics and therapeutics in the nanoscale spatial range beyond the diffraction barrier. Program Committee on Advanced Nanobiophotonics solicits invited and contributed papers on the following (but not limited to) areas:
- advanced approaches for breaking the diffraction barrier in nanobiophotonics imaging and sensing
- plasmonic, quantum-dot and nanoparticle biosensor probes
- in-vivo cellular/intracellular nanobiophotonics imaging and sensing
- nanoparticle-enhanced diagnostics/therapeutics
- advanced cancer nanobiophotonics
- single molecule spectroscopy and imaging
- nonlinear ultrahigh-resolution imaging and diagnostics
- optical manipulation of nanoparticles
- novel nanobiomaterials engineered for nanobiphotonics applications
- noninvasive biophotonics methods for characterizing nanobiomaterials
- biocompatibility and phototoxicity of novel nanobiomaterials
