Every year, Physics World, the world’s leading physics magazine published by the Institute of Physics, selects the 10 major contributions made for the advancement of Physics.
We are proud and happy to see that MINFLUX has been included in this short list:
2017 top-ten achievements in Physics according to the Institute of Physics
MINFLUX is a highly photon-efficient method to determine the position of single fluorescent molecules. It can be used to obtain super-resolved fluorescence images with the maximum resolution physically possible: the size of the photon source, i.e. of an atom or a molecule. MINFLUX was developed in the labs of Prof. Stefan W. Hell in Göttingen, as the main project of postdoc Francisco Balzarotti working under the direction of Prof. Hell and co-direction of Prof. Stefani, within the framework of a Max-Planck Partner Group.
We are working to have the second MINFLUX system of the world running in Buenos Aires as soon as possible. Dr. Bruno Siarry and Ph.D. candidate Luciano Masullo are working on it.
We are convinced that MIFLUX will inspire a new generation of fluorescence nanoscopy methods.
Remarkably, the Physics Department of the University of Buenos Aires is involved in two of the top-ten achievements. The Pierre Auger Observatory, a major international collaboration where researchers from our department contribute, also made it to the top-ten.
