Preface to the Topic

Preface to special topic: optofluidics.

This Special Topic section of Biomicrofluidics is on optofluidics or micro-optofluidic systems (MOFS), a burgeoning technology that aims to manipulate light and fluid at microscale and exploits their interaction to create highly versatile devices and integrated systems. This special issue puts together various contributed articles focusing on optofluidics or MOFS, which help inspire new researc...

Preface to Special Topic: Plasmas for Medical Applications

Preface: Special Topic on Multidimensional Spectroscopy.

Multidimensional signals are generated by subjecting molecules to sequences of short optical pulses and recording correlation plots related to the various controlled delay periods. These techniques which span all the way from the THz to the x-ray regimes provide qualitatively new structural and dynamical molecular information not available from conventional one-dimensional techniques. This issu...

Preface: Special Topic on Reaction Pathways.

This Special Topic Issue on Reaction Pathways collects original research articles illustrating the state of the art in the development and application of methods to describe complex chemical systems in terms of relatively simple mechanisms and collective coordinates. A broad range of applications is presented, spanning the sub-fields of biophysics and material science, in an attempt to showcase...

Preface to Special Topic: Transactions from the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association

Spanning time scales from seconds to femtoseconds, the rapidly growing field of structural dynamics explores both equilibrium and non-equilibrium processes in chemical, biological, and condensed matter systems. Advances in X-ray sources and detectors as well as new approaches for sample delivery, data collection, and processing continue to drive exciting discoveries in atomic and electronic mot...