ABSTRACT

In the realm of nanoscience, studies of single molecules, nanostructures, and nanoparticles (NPs) are an active research area that often involves comparison of results obtained from singlemolecule studies with those of the more familiar ensemble investigations of the same material. Most of the work in this area has employed immobilized single entities studied by spectroscopic

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