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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The molecules adsorbed on a nanomaterial determine much of the material’s function in catalysis, separations and sensing. Still very little
is understood about these critical adsorbate–surface interactions because there are few techniques that can quantify adsorption affinities at the nanoscale. Bulk measurements, for example,
cannot identify variations in adsorption across a single particle. And most relevant nanoparticle ligands are not inherently fluorescent, making them inaccessible to super-resolved
fluorescence microscopy techniques. COMPEITS cleverly relies on competitive adsorption between two reactions on a particle surface: an auxiliary fluorogenic reaction whose products can be
imaged, and a non-fluorescent reaction of interest (in this case, ligand adsorption). As the latter competes for surface sites, the auxiliary reaction rate is suppressed. The COMPEITS setup
is able to image the extent of suppression with nanometre precision and thus spatially resolve the non-fluorescent surface process. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your
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4287 (2021) Article CAS Google Scholar Download references AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Nature Reviews Materials http://www.nature.com/natrevmats/ Ariane Vartanian
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PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Vartanian, A. The many facets of cooperativity. _Nat Rev Mater_ 6, 763 (2021).
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