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Taken from ISI Web of Knowledge, here are the latest ranking for France and CNRS in physics.
If we just compare the total number of papers published, the froggies are not performing too bad, contrarily to what our government seems to say…
Just published in September 1 issue of Analytical Chemistry :
An inexpensive low numerical aperture lens is used instead of a costly conventional high NA microscope objective to detect single molecule fluorescence, thanks to a latex microsphere set at the lens focus. The graphs below show fluorescence intensity correlation functions obtained with a 0.25NA doublet and a 3 µm microsphere and reference correlation function with a standard water-immersion 1.2NA microscope objective and no microsphere.
We demonstrate viable FCS experiments at concentrations 1−1000 nM with different objectives costing less than $40. This offers a simple and low-cost alternative to the conventional complex microscope objectives.
Back from the Plasmonics GRC in Tilton NH last July. As a synthesis, here is my selection of the top 10 hot stuff / challenges in the field for the next years, from the list that was written at the end of the meeting. The list was voluntary limited to ten items :
See the paper by Lynn Savage in the July issue on the recent work of “Patrick Ferrand and colleagues at the Fresnel Institute” :
http://www.photonics.com/content/spectra/2008/July/microscopy/92560.aspx
