This Brief will focus on the functional uses and applications of FRET, starting with the derivation of FRET in the assemblies of nanostructures and subsequently giving application cases for biologists, physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers, and those in many other fields whoever would like to FRET as a tool. The goal of this part is therefore to show both specialist and non-specialist how to use and analyze FRET in a wide range of applications.

Autorentext
Dr. Hilmi Volkan Demir is a professor of electrical engineering and physics. He is an NRF Fellow of Singapore and NANYANG Associate Professor at NTU Singapore, and serves as the Founding Director of LUMINOUS! Center of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays. Concurrently, he is the EURYI Associate Professor at Bilkent University and UNAM National Nanotechnology Research Center of Turkey. ). His current research interests include the science and technology of nanocrystal optoelectronics for semiconductor lighting; excitonics and plasmonics for high-efficiency light generation and harvesting; and wireless in vivo sensing and smart implants for future healthcare.

Dr. Pedro Ludwig Hernandez Martinez is a Research Scientist at LUMINOUS! Center of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include Nanoscience and Nanotechnology including Plasmonics and Semiconductors.

Dr. Alexander O. Govorov is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University in Athens, USA. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Semiconductor Physics in Russia and later was a Humboldt Fellow at Munich University. His research interests include Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Physics of semiconductor nanostructures, optical and transport phenomena, many-body effects, quantum phenomena, nanoscience.

Inhalt
FRET overview.- Nonradiative energy transfer in assembly of nanostructures.- Applications of FRET.- Functional uses and analyses of FRET experiments.- Summary.- Appendix.