Expedition into the Nanoworld

1. A Curious premise

"My grandma was a beautiful woman...". This chapter tells about the motivation to decide to do research in life and why with the optical microscope.

2. Just observe!

The optical microscope to observe living systems, from organs to proteins. The challenge from its invention to "tomorrow" to decipher cancer and neurological disorders.

3.The colours of the rainbow

We all live under the rainbow, colours are delivering the energy needed to explore the living by watching.

4. The sharpener of the light

When a curved piece of glass meets the light allows to see those fine dietails hidden to the eyes.

5. A three-dimensional world

Flatlandia is a novel, the real world is developed along three spatial dimensions and the optical microscope can produce three-dimensional animated "postcard" by simply changing the lens focus when observing around.

6. Modern times: the space and time of observations

Time is the fourth dimension that increases the budget of information at our disposal to understand what's going on at different time time and space scales.

7. Two photon are better than one

Quantum mechanics allows to start a joyful revolution in optical microscopy with relevant implicantions in medicine and biology. Two photon is a unique entity.

8. Super eyes to see beyond physical limits

Laws of physics limit the perfomances of the light microscope. No doubts. The image reconstrution channel has no limits if you are able to add information and the optical microscope an unlimited super power to visualize details.

9. Without a net

Now is time to remove the net. We are skilled enough. So lets control the shape of light to get information without fluorescent labes.

10. The liquid microscope of the future

Illumination produces multiple messages tuning across time and space scales and artificial intelligence can merge them to deciphering nature. Liquid tunable microscopy could provide the opportunity to see things differently and to change our point of view, abandoning the obsession of representing the "real world" we have in mind when forming an image. Lets see further!

11. Pop microscopy

"Grown-ups never understand anything on their own, and it is tiring for children to always have to give them explanations. "We use nice images to bring you to instruments and applications like in a pop song that people whistle in the shower.

12. Acknowledgments

It is a love narration in the love story between a curved piece of glass and the rainbow.