Expansion Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy (ExSTED)
Expansion Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy (ExSTED) is a scholarly work by Mengfei Gao, Helge Ewers, and Alf Honigmann, published in 2018 in ''ACS Nano''. The main subjects of the publication include nanotechnology, resolution, fluorescence, fluorescence microscope, protein microarray, super-resolution microscopy, materials science, cryogenic electron microscopy, optics, optical microscope, microscopy, STED microscopy, and stimulated emission. To overcome the current limits of these complementary approaches, authors combined ExM with STED (ExSTED) and demonstrated an increase in resolution of up to 30-fold compared to conventional microscopy (<10 nm lateral and ∼50 nm isotropic).