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Thakuri A, Bhosle AA, Hiremath SD, Banerjee M, Chatterjee A. A carbon dots-MnO 2 nanosheet-based turn-on pseudochemodosimeter as low-cost probe for selective detection of hazardous mercury ion contaminations in water. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2024; 469:133998. [PMID: 38493622 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.133998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Mercury is a highly hazardous element due to its profound toxicity and wide abundance in the environment. Despite the availability of various fluorimetric detection tools for Hg2+, including organic fluorophores and aptasensors, they often suffer from shortcomings like the utilization of expensive chemicals and toxic organic solvents, multi-step synthesis, sometimes with poor selectivity and low sensitivity. Whereas, biomass-derived fluorophores, such as carbon dots (CDs), present themselves as cost-effective and environmentally benign alternatives that exhibit comparable efficacy. Herein, we report a reaction-driven sensing assembly based on CDs, MnO2 nanosheets, and hydroquinone monothiocarbonate (HQTC) for the detection of Hg2+ ions, which relies on the formation of a CDs-MnO2 FRET-conjugate, resulting in the quenching of the intrinsic fluorescence of CDs. In a pseudochemodosimetric approach, the thiophilic nature of mercury was utilized for in-situ generation of the reducing species, hydroquinone from HQTC, resulting in the reduction of MnO2 nanosheets, the release of fluorescent CDs back to the solution. The low limit of detection (LOD) was achieved as 2 ppb (0.01 μM). The probe worked efficiently in real water samples like sea, river with good recovery of spiked Hg2+ and in some Indian ayurvedic medicines as well. Furthermore, solid-phase detection with sodium alginate beads demonstrated the ability of this cost-effective sensing assembly for onsite detection of Hg2+ ions.
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- Ankit Thakuri
- Department of Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Bypass Road, Zuarinagar, Sancoale, Goa 403726, India
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- Department of Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Bypass Road, Zuarinagar, Sancoale, Goa 403726, India
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- Department of Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Bypass Road, Zuarinagar, Sancoale, Goa 403726, India
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- Department of Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Bypass Road, Zuarinagar, Sancoale, Goa 403726, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, NH 17B, Bypass Road, Zuarinagar, Sancoale, Goa 403726, India.
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Liang X, Xia H, Xiang J, Wang F, Ma J, Zhou X, Wang H, Liu X, Zhu Q, Lin H, Pan J, Yuan M, Li G, Hu H. Facile Tailoring of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Förster Resonance Energy Transfer-Driven Enhancement in Perovskite Photovoltaics. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2307476. [PMID: 38445968 PMCID: PMC11095144 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202307476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) has demonstrated its potential to enhance the light energy utilization ratio of perovskite solar cells by interacting with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and perovskite layers. However, comprehensive investigations into how MOF design and synthesis impact FRET in perovskite systems are scarce. In this work, nanoscale HIAM-type Zr-MOF (HIAM-4023, HIAM-4024, and HIAM-4025) is meticulously tailored to evaluate FRET's existence and its influence on the perovskite photoactive layer. Through precise adjustments of amino groups and acceptor units in the organic linker, HIAM-MOFs are synthesized with the same topology, but distinct photoluminescence (PL) emission properties. Significant FRET is observed between HIAM-4023/HIAM-4024 and the perovskite, confirmed by spectral overlap, fluorescence lifetime decay, and calculated distances between HIAM-4023/HIAM-4024 and the perovskite. Conversely, the spectral overlap between the PL emission of HIAM-4025 and the perovskite's absorption spectrum is relatively minimal, impeding the energy transfer from HIAM-4025 to the perovskite. Therefore, the HIAM-4023/HIAM-4024-assisted perovskite devices exhibit enhanced EQE via FRET processes, whereas the HIAM-4025 demonstrates comparable EQE to the pristine. Ultimately, the HIAM-4023-assisted perovskite device achieves an enhanced power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 24.22% compared with pristine devices (PCE of 22.06%) and remarkable long-term stability under ambient conditions and continuous light illumination.
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- Xiao Liang
- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and ProcessingSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringWuhan University of TechnologyWuhan430070China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and ProcessingSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringWuhan University of TechnologyWuhan430070China
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- Medical Intelligence and Innovation AcademySouthern University of Science and Technology HospitalShenzhen518055China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and ProcessingSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringWuhan University of TechnologyWuhan430070China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and ProcessingSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringWuhan University of TechnologyWuhan430070China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
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- College of Materials Science and EngineeringZhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou310014China
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- Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center (RECAST) College of ChemistryNankai UniversityTianjin300071China
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- Department of Electronic and Information EngineeringResearch Institute for Smart Energy (RISE)The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHung HomKowloonHong Kong999077China
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- Hoffmann Institute of Advanced MaterialsShenzhen Polytechnic7098 Liuxian BoulevardShenzhen518055China
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Li W, Liang Z, Wang P, Ma Q. The luminescent principle and sensing mechanism of metal-organic framework for bioanalysis and bioimaging. Biosens Bioelectron 2024; 249:116008. [PMID: 38245932 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) porous material have obtained more and more attention during the past decade. Among various MOFs materials, luminescent MOFs with specific chemical characteristics and excellent optical properties have been regarded as promising candidates in the research of cancer biomarkers detection and bioimaging. Therefore, the latest advances and the principal biosensing and imaging strategies based on the luminescent MOFs were discussed in this review. The effective synthesis methods of luminescent MOFs were emphasized firstly. Subsequently, the luminescent principle of MOFs has been summarized. Furthermore, the luminescent MOF-based sensing mechanisms have been highlighted to provide insights into the design of biosensors. The designability of LMOFs was suitable for different needs of biorecognition, detection, and imaging. Typical examples of luminescent MOF in the various cancer biomarkers detection and bioimaging were emphatically introduced. Finally, the future outlooks and challenges of luminescent MOF-based biosensing systems were proposed for clinical cancer diagnosis.
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- Wenyan Li
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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Hastman DA, Hooe S, Chiriboga M, Díaz SA, Susumu K, Stewart MH, Green CM, Hildebrandt N, Medintz IL. Multiplexed DNA and Protease Detection with Orthogonal Energy Transfer on a Single Quantum Dot Scaffolded Biosensor. ACS Sens 2024; 9:157-170. [PMID: 38160434 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c01812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Almost all pathogens, whether viral or bacterial, utilize key proteolytic steps in their pathogenesis. The ability to detect a pathogen's genomic material along with its proteolytic activity represents one approach to identifying the pathogen and providing initial evidence of its viability. Here, we report on a prototype biosensor design assembled around a single semiconductor quantum dot (QD) scaffold that is capable of detecting both nucleic acid sequences and proteolytic activity by using orthogonal energy transfer (ET) processes. The sensor consists of a central QD assembled via peptidyl-PNA linkers with multiple DNA sequences that encode complements to genomic sequences originating from the Ebola, Influenza, and COVID-19 viruses, which we use as surrogate targets. These are hybridized to complement strands labeled with a terbium (Tb) chelate, AlexaFluor647 (AF647), and Cy5.5 dyes, giving rise to two potential FRET cascades: the first includes Tb → QD → AF647 → Cy5.5 (→ = ET step), which is detected in a time-gated modality, and QD → AF647 → Cy5.5, which is detected from direct excitation. The labeled DNA-displaying QD construct is then further assembled with a RuII-modified peptide, which quenches QD photoluminescence by charge transfer and is recognized by a protease to yield the full biosensor. Each of the labeled DNAs and peptides can be ratiometrically assembled to the QD in a controllable manner to tune each of the ET pathways. Addition of a given target DNA displaces its labeled complement on the QD, disrupting that FRET channel, while protease addition disrupts charge transfer quenching of the central QD scaffold and boosts its photoluminescence and FRET relay capabilities. Along with characterizing the ET pathways and verifying biosensing in both individual and multiplexed formats, we also demonstrate the ability of this construct to function in molecular logic and perform Boolean operations; this highlights the construct's ability to discriminate and transduce signals between different inputs or pathogens. The potential application space for such a sensor device is discussed.
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- David A Hastman
- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
- American Society for Engineering Education, Washington ,District of Columbia20036, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
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- Northrop Grumman Corporation, Mission Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, 21240, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
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- Optical Sciences Division, Code 5600, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
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- Optical Sciences Division, Code 5600, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
- Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton L8S 4L7, Canada
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington ,District of Columbia20375, United States
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Mathur D, Díaz SA, Hildebrandt N, Pensack RD, Yurke B, Biaggne A, Li L, Melinger JS, Ancona MG, Knowlton WB, Medintz IL. Pursuing excitonic energy transfer with programmable DNA-based optical breadboards. Chem Soc Rev 2023; 52:7848-7948. [PMID: 37872857 PMCID: PMC10642627 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00936a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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DNA nanotechnology has now enabled the self-assembly of almost any prescribed 3-dimensional nanoscale structure in large numbers and with high fidelity. These structures are also amenable to site-specific modification with a variety of small molecules ranging from drugs to reporter dyes. Beyond obvious application in biotechnology, such DNA structures are being pursued as programmable nanoscale optical breadboards where multiple different/identical fluorophores can be positioned with sub-nanometer resolution in a manner designed to allow them to engage in multistep excitonic energy-transfer (ET) via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) or other related processes. Not only is the ability to create such complex optical structures unique, more importantly, the ability to rapidly redesign and prototype almost all structural and optical analogues in a massively parallel format allows for deep insight into the underlying photophysical processes. Dynamic DNA structures further provide the unparalleled capability to reconfigure a DNA scaffold on the fly in situ and thus switch between ET pathways within a given assembly, actively change its properties, and even repeatedly toggle between two states such as on/off. Here, we review progress in developing these composite materials for potential applications that include artificial light harvesting, smart sensors, nanoactuators, optical barcoding, bioprobes, cryptography, computing, charge conversion, and theranostics to even new forms of optical data storage. Along with an introduction into the DNA scaffolding itself, the diverse fluorophores utilized in these structures, their incorporation chemistry, and the photophysical processes they are designed to exploit, we highlight the evolution of DNA architectures implemented in the pursuit of increased transfer efficiency and the key lessons about ET learned from each iteration. We also focus on recent and growing efforts to exploit DNA as a scaffold for assembling molecular dye aggregates that host delocalized excitons as a test bed for creating excitonic circuits and accessing other quantum-like optical phenomena. We conclude with an outlook on what is still required to transition these materials from a research pursuit to application specific prototypes and beyond.
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- Divita Mathur
- Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH 44106, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
- Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, L8S 4L7, Canada
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- Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
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- Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
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- Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
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- Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
- Center for Advanced Energy Studies, Idaho Falls, ID 83401, USA
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- Electronics Science and Technology Division, Code 6800, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
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- Electronics Science and Technology Division, Code 6800, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
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- Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA.
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, USA.
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Dalui A, Ariga K, Acharya S. Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: from bottom-up nanoarchitectonics to energy harvesting applications. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:10835-10865. [PMID: 37608724 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc02605a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/24/2023]
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Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been extensively investigated owing to their unique properties induced by the quantum confinement effect. The advent of colloidal synthesis routes led to the design of stable colloidal NCs with uniform size, shape, and composition. Metal oxides, phosphides, and chalcogenides (ZnE, CdE, PbE, where E = S, Se, or Te) are few of the most important monocomponent semiconductor NCs, which show excellent optoelectronic properties. The ability to build quantum confined heterostructures comprising two or more semiconductor NCs offer greater customization and tunability of properties compared to their monocomponent counterparts. More recently, the halide perovskite NCs showed exceptional optoelectronic properties for energy generation and harvesting applications. Numerous applications including photovoltaic, photodetectors, light emitting devices, catalysis, photochemical devices, and solar driven fuel cells have demonstrated using these NCs in the recent past. Overall, semiconductor NCs prepared via the colloidal synthesis route offer immense potential to become an alternative to the presently available device applications. This feature article will explore the progress of NCs syntheses with outstanding potential to control the shape and spatial dimensionality required for photovoltaic, light emitting diode, and photocatalytic applications. We also attempt to address the challenges associated with achieving high efficiency devices with the NCs and possible solutions including interface engineering, packing control, encapsulation chemistry, and device architecture engineering.
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- Amit Dalui
- Department of Chemistry, Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata-700026, India
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- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
- International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata-700032, India.
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Azadinia M, Davidson-Hall T, Chung DS, Ghorbani A, Samaeifar F, Chen J, Chun P, Lyu Q, Cotella G, Aziz H. Inverted Solution-Processed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices with Wide Band Gap Quantum Dot Interlayers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:23631-23641. [PMID: 37141421 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c02356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Despite its benefits for facilitating device fabrication, utilization of a polymeric hole transport layer (HTL) in inverted quantum dots (QDs) light-emitting devices (IQLEDs) often leads to poor device performance. In this work, we find that the poor performance arises primarily from electron leakage, inefficient charge injection, and significant exciton quenching at the HTL interface in the inverted architecture and not due to solvent damage effects as is widely believed. We also find that using a layer of wider band gap QDs as an interlayer (IL) in between the HTL and the main QDs' emission material layer (EML) can facilitate hole injection, suppress electron leakage, and reduce exciton quenching, effectively mitigating the poor interface effects and resulting in high electroluminescence performance. Using an IL in IQLEDs with a solution-processed poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-N-(4-sec-butylphenyl)-diphenylamine) (TFB), HTL improves the efficiency by 2.85× (from 3 to 8.56%) and prolongs the lifetime by 9.4× (from 1266 to 11,950 h at 100 cd/m2), which, to the best of our knowledge, is the longest lifetime for an R-IQLED with a solution-coated HTL. Measurements on single-carrier devices reveal that while electron injection becomes easier as the band gap of the QDs decreases, hole injection surprisingly becomes more difficult, indicating that EMLs of QLEDs are more electron-rich in the case of red devices and more hole-rich in the case of blue devices. Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy measurements verify that blue QDs have a shallower valence band energy than their red counterparts, corroborating these conclusions. The findings in this work, therefore, provide not only a simple approach for achieving high performance in IQLEDs with solution-coated HTLs but also novel insights into charge injection and its dependence on QDs' band gap as well as into different HTL interface properties of the inverted versus upright architecture.
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- Mohsen Azadinia
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Ottawa IC Laboratory, Huawei Canada, 19 Allstate Parkway, Markham, Ontario L3R 5B4, Canada
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- Cambridge Research Centre, Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd., Cambridge CB4 0FY, U.K
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- Ipswich Research Centre, Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd., Phoenix House (B55), Adastral Park, Ipswich IP5 3RE, U.K
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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Sivaiah A, Prusty S, Parandhama A. Synthesis and surface modification of ultrasmall monodisperse NaYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+ upconversion nanoparticles. J INDIAN CHEM SOC 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2023.100990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Lu S, Morrow DJ, Li Z, Guo C, Yu X, Wang H, Schultz JD, O'Connor JP, Jin N, Fang F, Wang W, Cui R, Chen O, Su C, Wasielewski MR, Ma X, Li X. Encapsulating Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Supramolecular Cages Enables Ultrafast Guest-Host Electron and Vibrational Energy Transfer. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:5191-5202. [PMID: 36745391 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c11981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In the field of supramolecular chemistry, host-guest systems have been extensively explored to encapsulate a wide range of substrates, owing to emerging functionalities in nanoconfined space that cannot be achieved in dilute solutions. However, host-guest chemistry is still limited to encapsulation of small guests. Herein, we construct a water-soluble metallo-supramolecular hexagonal prism with a large hydrophobic cavity by anchoring multiple polyethylene glycol chains onto the building blocks. Then, assembled prisms are able to encapsulate quantum dots (QDs) with diameters of less than 5.0 nm. Furthermore, we find that the supramolecular cage around each QD strongly modifies the photophysics of the QD by universally increasing the rates of QD relaxation processes via ultrafast electron and vibrational energy transfer. Taken together, these efforts expand the scope of substrates in host-guest systems and provide a new approach to tune the optical properties of QDs.
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- Shuai Lu
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China.,Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Instrumental Analysis Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine, College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States.,Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.,Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China.,Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen University Clinical Medical Academy, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China
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Zhang Q, Zhang X, Ma F, Zhang CY. Advances in quantum dot-based biosensors for DNA-modifying enzymes assay. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Shen Y, Nie C, Wei Y, Zheng Z, Xu ZL, Xiang P. FRET-based innovative assays for precise detection of the residual heavy metals in food and agriculture-related matrices. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Pilch-Wrobel A, Kotulska AM, Lahtinen S, Soukka T, Bednarkiewicz A. Engineering the Compositional Architecture of Core-Shell Upconverting Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles for Optimal Luminescent Donor in Resonance Energy Transfer: The Effects of Energy Migration and Storage. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2022; 18:e2200464. [PMID: 35355389 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202200464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) between single molecule donor (D) and acceptor (A) is well understood from a fundamental perspective and is widely applied in biology, biotechnology, medical diagnostics, and bio-imaging. Lanthanide doped upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) have demonstrated their suitability as alternative donor species. Nevertheless, while they solve most disadvantageous features of organic donor molecules, such as photo-bleaching, spectral cross-excitation, and emission bleed-through, the fundamental understanding and practical realizations of bioassays with UCNP donors remain challenging. Among others, the interaction between many donor ions (in donor UCNP) and many acceptors anchored on the NP surface and the upconversion itself within UCNPs, complicate the decay-based analysis of D-A interaction. In this work, the assessment of designed virtual core-shell NP (VNP) models leads to the new designs of UCNPs, such as …@Er, Yb@Er, Yb@YbEr, which are experimentally evaluated as donor NPs and compared to the simulations. Moreover, the luminescence rise and decay kinetics in UCNP donors upon RET is discussed in newly proposed disparity measurements. The presented studies help to understand the role of energy-transfer and energy migration between lanthanide ion dopants and how the architecture of core-shell UCNPs affects their performance as FRET donors to organic acceptor dyes.
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- Aleksandra Pilch-Wrobel
- Division of Biomedical Physicochemistry, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAN, ul.Okolna 2, Wrocław, 50-422, Poland
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- Division of Biomedical Physicochemistry, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAN, ul.Okolna 2, Wrocław, 50-422, Poland
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- Department of Life Technologies/Biotechnology, University of Turku, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, Turku, 20520, Finland
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- Department of Life Technologies/Biotechnology, University of Turku, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, Turku, 20520, Finland
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- Division of Biomedical Physicochemistry, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAN, ul.Okolna 2, Wrocław, 50-422, Poland
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Determination of xanthine using a ratiometric fluorescence probe based on boron-doped carbon quantum dots and gold nanoclusters. Mikrochim Acta 2022; 189:148. [PMID: 35299262 DOI: 10.1007/s00604-021-05139-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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A dual-emission ratiometric fluorescent sensing system based on boron-doped carbon quantum dots (B-CQDs) and gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) has been developed for the determination of xanthine. The blue fluorescence of B-CQDs at 445 nm is then reduced by the AuNCs through the inner filter effect (IFE) under a single excitation wavelength of 370 nm. By the catalysis of xanthine oxidase (XOD), xanthine is oxidized by oxygen dissolved in the solution to produce H2O2. The horseradish peroxidase (HRP) catalyzes H2O2 to generate hydroxyl radicals, which can quench the fluorescence of AuNCs, leading to the recovery of the fluorescence of B-CQDs. Based on the relationship between the fluorescence intensity ratio (F445/F665) and the concentration of xanthine, the designed method exhibits a good linearity range of 1.2-500.0 μmol L -1 and a limit of detection of 0.37 μmol L -1. The ratiometric fluorescent is applied to determine xanthine in human urine samples. Good recoveries of spiked samples in the range 99.2-105.0% are obtained by the proposed assay, with relative standard deviations (RSD) ranging from 0.9 to 2.6%.
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Liu Y, Teng L, Yin B, Meng H, Yin X, Huan S, Song G, Zhang XB. Chemical Design of Activatable Photoacoustic Probes for Precise Biomedical Applications. Chem Rev 2022; 122:6850-6918. [PMID: 35234464 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology, a three-dimensional hybrid imaging modality that integrates the advantage of optical and acoustic imaging, has great application prospects in molecular imaging due to its high imaging depth and resolution. To endow PA imaging with the ability for real-time molecular visualization and precise biomedical diagnosis, numerous activatable molecular PA probes which can specifically alter their PA intensities upon reacting with the targets or biological events of interest have been developed. This review highlights the recent developments of activatable PA probes for precise biomedical applications including molecular detection of the biotargets and imaging of the biological events. First, the generation mechanism of PA signals will be given, followed by a brief introduction to contrast agents used for PA probe design. Then we will particularly summarize the general design principles for the alteration of PA signals and activatable strategies for developing precise PA probes. Furthermore, we will give a detailed discussion of activatable PA probes in molecular detection and biomedical imaging applications in living systems. At last, the current challenges and outlooks of future PA probes will be discussed. We hope that this review will stimulate new ideas to explore the potentials of activatable PA probes for precise biomedical applications in the future.
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- Yongchao Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Green Catalysis Center, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China
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Budyka MF, Nikulin PA. Multiphotochromic Systems Based on Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Nanoparticles as “Super-Photochromes” for Photonic Molecular Logic Gates. HIGH ENERGY CHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s0018143921060035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Azimi M, Manzoori JL, Amjadi M, Abolhasani J. Determination of Deltamethrin in Water Samples Using Sulfur and Nitrogen Co-Doped Carbon Quantum Dots as a Chemiluminescence Probe. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1061934821100026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Algar WR, Massey M, Rees K, Higgins R, Krause KD, Darwish GH, Peveler WJ, Xiao Z, Tsai HY, Gupta R, Lix K, Tran MV, Kim H. Photoluminescent Nanoparticles for Chemical and Biological Analysis and Imaging. Chem Rev 2021; 121:9243-9358. [PMID: 34282906 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs) for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new applications continue to be reported after two decades of research. This review provides a comprehensive and heuristic overview of this field. It is targeted to both newcomers and experts who are interested in a critical assessment of LNP materials, their properties, strengths and weaknesses, and prospective applications. Numerous LNP materials are cataloged by fundamental descriptions of their chemical identities and physical morphology, quantitative photoluminescence (PL) properties, PL mechanisms, and surface chemistry. These materials include various semiconductor quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, graphene derivatives, carbon dots, nanodiamonds, luminescent metal nanoclusters, lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles and downshifting nanoparticles, triplet-triplet annihilation nanoparticles, persistent-luminescence nanoparticles, conjugated polymer nanoparticles and semiconducting polymer dots, multi-nanoparticle assemblies, and doped and labeled nanoparticles, including but not limited to those based on polymers and silica. As an exercise in the critical assessment of LNP properties, these materials are ranked by several application-related functional criteria. Additional sections highlight recent examples of advances in chemical and biological analysis, point-of-care diagnostics, and cellular, tissue, and in vivo imaging and theranostics. These examples are drawn from the recent literature and organized by both LNP material and the particular properties that are leveraged to an advantage. Finally, a perspective on what comes next for the field is offered.
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- W Russ Algar
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- School of Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Abramova AM, Goryacheva OA, Drozd DD, Novikova AS, Ponomareva TS, Strokin PD, Goryacheva IY. Luminescence Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Chemical Analysis. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1061934821030023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Gao R, Kodaimati MS, Yan D. Recent advances in persistent luminescence based on molecular hybrid materials. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:5564-5589. [PMID: 33690765 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs01463j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Molecular persistently luminescent materials have received recent attention due to their promising applications in optical displays, biological imaging, chemical sensing, and security systems. In this review, we systematically summarize recent advances in establishing persistently luminescent materials-specifically focusing on materials composed of molecular hybrids for the first time. We describe the main strategies for synthesizing these hybrid materials, namely: (i) inorganics/organics, (ii) organics/organics, and (iii) organics/polymer systems and demonstrate how molecular hybrids provide synergistic effects, while improving luminescence lifetimes and efficiencies. These hybrid materials promote new methods for tuning key physical properties such as singlet-triplet excited state energies by controlling the chemical interactions and molecular orientations in the solid state. We review new advances in these materials from the perspective of examining experimental and theoretical approaches to room-temperature phosphorescence and thermally-activated delayed fluorescence. Finally, this review concludes by summarizing the current challenges and future opportunities for these hybrid materials.
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- Rui Gao
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, College of Chemistry, and Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China.
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Panniello A, Trapani M, Cordaro M, Dibenedetto CN, Tommasi R, Ingrosso C, Fanizza E, Grisorio R, Collini E, Agostiano A, Curri ML, Castriciano MA, Striccoli M. High-Efficiency FRET Processes in BODIPY-Functionalized Quantum Dot Architectures. Chemistry 2021; 27:2371-2380. [PMID: 32896940 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202003574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Efficient FRET systems are developed combining colloidal CdSe quantum dots (QDs) donors and BODIPY acceptors. To promote effective energy transfer in FRET architectures, the distance between the organic fluorophore and the QDs needs to be optimized by a careful system engineering. In this context, BODIPY dyes bearing amino-terminated functionalities are used in virtue of the high affinity of amine groups in coordinating the QD surface. A preliminary QD surface treatment with a short amine ligand is performed to favor the interaction with the organic fluorophores in solution. The successful coordination of the dye to the QD surface, accomplishing a short donor-acceptor distance, provides effective energy transfer already in solution, with efficiency of 76 %. The efficiency further increases in the solid state where the QDs and the dye are deposited as single coordinated units from solution, with a distance between the fluorophores down to 2.2 nm, demonstrating the effectiveness of the coupling strategy.
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- Annamaria Panniello
- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati del CNR (ISMN-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed, Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Messina, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres31, 98166, Messina, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed, Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Messina, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres31, 98166, Messina, Italy
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.,Dipartimento Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche di Base, Neuroscienze e Organi di Senso, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.,Dipartimento Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, del Territorio, Edile e di, Chimica (DICATECh), Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento Scienze Chimiche, Università di Padova, via Marzolo 1, 35131, Padova, Italy
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.,Dipartimento Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.,Dipartimento Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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- Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati del CNR (ISMN-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed, Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Messina, Viale F. Stagno D'Alcontres31, 98166, Messina, Italy
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici del CNR (IPCF-CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Via Orabona, 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
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Jana S, Xu X, Klymchenko A, Reisch A, Pons T. Microcavity-Enhanced Fluorescence Energy Transfer from Quantum Dot Excited Whispering Gallery Modes to Acceptor Dye Nanoparticles. ACS NANO 2021; 15:1445-1453. [PMID: 33378154 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities are emerging as potential candidates in the field of biosensing applications, as their resonance wavelengths shift with changes in the refractive index in the region of their evanescent field. Their high-quality resonance modes and accessible surface functionalities make them promising for molecular assays, but their high sensitivity makes them inherently unstable. Here, we demonstrate that WGM resonances also strongly enhance fluorescence energy transfer between donors placed inside the microcavity and acceptors placed outside. We load colloidal quantum dots (QDs) into polymeric microspheres to provide WGMs that benefit from the QD optical features when used as energy-transfer donors. Spectroscopic analysis of the emission from the microcavities shows that the high quality of WGMs enables a very efficient energy transfer to dye-loaded polymer nanoparticle acceptors placed in their vicinity. Compared to Förster resonance energy transfer, WGM-enabled energy transfer (WGET) occurs over a much more extended volume, thanks to the delocalization of the mode over a typically 105 times larger surface and to the extension of the WGM electromagnetic field to larger distances (>100 nm vs a few nm) from the surface of the microcavity. The resulting sensing scheme combines the sensitivity of WGM spectroscopy with the specificity and simple detection schemes of fluorescence energy transfer, thus providing a potentially powerful class of biosensors.
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- Subha Jana
- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Étude des matériaux (LPEM, UMR 8213), ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Étude des matériaux (LPEM, UMR 8213), ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies UMR 7021, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies UMR 7021, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Étude des matériaux (LPEM, UMR 8213), ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France
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Shu Y, Gao J, Chen J, Yan J, Sun J, Jin D, Xu Q, Hu X. A near-infrared fluorescent sensor based on the architecture of low-toxic Ag 2S quantum dot and MnO 2 nanosheet for sensing glutathione in human serum sample. Talanta 2021; 221:121475. [PMID: 33076088 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Near-infrared (NIR) emitting Ag2S quantum dots (QDs) are excellent fluorescent nanoprobes for bioassays with low toxicity. A novel fluorescent sensing platform which employing NIR fluorescent Ag2S QDs and MnO2 2D nanosheets as NIR emitters and quenchers is designed for rapid and selective determination of glutathione (GSH). A facile and efficient approach was demonstrated for the synthesis of NIR fluorescent Ag2S QDs with the emission of 845 nm. Then the NIR fluorescent nanoprobe of Ag2S QDs-MnO2 nanosheets is obtained by adsorbing Ag2S QDs onto the surface of MnO2 nanosheets which have atomically thick two-dimensional structure and high specific surface area. And the NIR fluorescence of Ag2S QDs is quenched by the MnO2 nanosheets. The presence of GSH could reduce MnO2 to Mn2+ that results in the restoration of NIR fluorescence for Ag2S QDs. The NIR fluorescent nanoprobe could be used for highly selective detection of GSH. Also a low detection limit of 60 μmol/L was obtained. Because NIR fluorescence of the Ag2S QDs can efficiently reduce the interferences from background scattering and autofluorescence. The NIR fluorescent nanoprobe was directly applied to monitor the GSH level in human serum sample with high accuracy and precision.
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- Yun Shu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou Polytechnic Institute, Yangzhou, 225127, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225002, China.
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Castro RC, Lopes AFR, Soares JX, Ribeiro DSM, Santos JLM. Determination of atenolol based on the reversion of the fluorescence resonance energy transfer between AgInS 2 quantum dots and Au nanoparticles. Analyst 2020; 146:1004-1015. [PMID: 33295361 DOI: 10.1039/d0an01874k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The present work focused on the development of a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based sensing platform for the monitoring of atenolol in pharmaceutical formulations. The implemented approach involved the assembly of d-penicillamine-capped AgInS2/ZnS quantum dots (QDs), as energy donors, and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as acceptors and the establishment of electrostatic interaction between both capping ligands at the nanoparticle surface, which induced the inhibition of the ternary QD photoluminescence (PL). The presence of a ZnS shell around the ternary QD core and the use of cysteamine (CA) as the AuNP capping ligand, instead of the typical citrate, allowed a more efficient FRET process to occur. The ability of Cd-free ternary QDs to be used as a sensing element in FRET-based assays was demonstrated, emphasizing the advantages relative to the common Cd-based QDs, when seeking the implementation of more environmentally friendly and less toxic analytical methodologies. The influence of several β-blocker drugs on the FRET donor-acceptor assemblies was thoroughly assessed. Atenolol and nadolol caused the aggregation of CA-AuNPs via hydrogen bonding interactions which reduced the spectral overlap between the donor and acceptor, impairing the FRET process and consequently the emission of the QDs was restored. Under the optimized conditions, the obtained results exhibited a linear relationship between the QD PL recovery signal and atenolol concentration of up to 11.22 mg L-1 with a detection limit of 1.05 mg L-1. This FRET sensing platform was successfully applied in the determination of atenolol in pharmaceutical formulations with recovery values ranging from 97.4 to 104.3%.
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- Rafael C Castro
- LAQV, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemical Sciences, Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira no. 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
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Jahnke T, Hergenhahn U, Winter B, Dörner R, Frühling U, Demekhin PV, Gokhberg K, Cederbaum LS, Ehresmann A, Knie A, Dreuw A. Interatomic and Intermolecular Coulombic Decay. Chem Rev 2020; 120:11295-11369. [PMID: 33035051 PMCID: PMC7596762 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Interatomic or intermolecular Coulombic decay (ICD) is a nonlocal electronic decay mechanism occurring in weakly bound matter. In an ICD process, energy released by electronic relaxation of an excited atom or molecule leads to ionization of a neighboring one via Coulombic electron interactions. ICD has been predicted theoretically in the mid nineties of the last century, and its existence has been confirmed experimentally approximately ten years later. Since then, a number of fundamental and applied aspects have been studied in this quickly growing field of research. This review provides an introduction to ICD and draws the connection to related energy transfer and ionization processes. The theoretical approaches for the description of ICD as well as the experimental techniques developed and employed for its investigation are described. The existing body of literature on experimental and theoretical studies of ICD processes in different atomic and molecular systems is reviewed.
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- Till Jahnke
- Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Wendelsteinstr. 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany.,Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik and Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik und CINSaT, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Physical-Chemistry Institute, Ruprecht-Karls University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical-Chemistry Institute, Ruprecht-Karls University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik und CINSaT, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Institut für Physik und CINSaT, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Ruprecht-Karls University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Bednarkiewicz A, Chan EM, Prorok K. Enhancing FRET biosensing beyond 10 nm with photon avalanche nanoparticles. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2020; 2:4863-4872. [PMID: 36132913 PMCID: PMC9417941 DOI: 10.1039/d0na00404a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) between donor (D) and acceptor (A) molecules is a phenomenon commonly exploited to study or visualize biological interactions at the molecular level. However, commonly used organic D and A molecules often suffer from photobleaching and spectral bleed-through, and their spectral properties hinder quantitative analysis. Lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) as alternative D species offer significant improvements in terms of photostability, spectral purity and background-free luminescence detection, but they bring new challenges related to multiple donor ions existing in a single large size UCNP and the need for nanoparticle biofunctionalization. Considering the relatively short Förster distance (typically below 5-7 nm), it becomes a non-trivial task to assure sufficiently strong D-A interaction, which translates directly to the sensitivity of such bio-sensors. In this work we propose a solution to these issues, which employs the photon avalanche (PA) phenomenon in lanthanide-doped materials. Using theoretical modelling, we predict that these PA systems would be highly susceptible to the presence of A and that the estimated sensitivity range extends to distances 2 to 4 times longer (i.e. 10-25 nm) than those typically found in conventional FRET systems. This promises high sensitivity, low background and spectral or temporal biosensing, and provides the basis for a radically novel approach to combine luminescence imaging and self-normalized bio-molecular interaction sensing.
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- Artur Bednarkiewicz
- Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Okolna 2 50-422 Wroclaw Poland
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA 94720 USA
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- Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Okolna 2 50-422 Wroclaw Poland
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Wang W, Kong Y, Jiang J, Tian X, Li S, Akshath US, Tiede C, Hondow N, Yu A, Guo Y, Zhou D. Photon induced quantum yield regeneration of cap-exchanged CdSe/CdS quantum rods for ratiometric biosensing and cellular imaging. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:8647-8655. [PMID: 32147673 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr08060k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Full water-dispersion of commercial hydrophobic CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum rods (QRs) was achieved by cap-exchange using a dihydrolipoic acid zwitterion ligand at a low ligand:QR molar ratio (LQMR) of 1000. However, this process almost completely quenched the QR fluorescence, greatly limiting its potential in downstream fluorescence based applications. Fortunately, we found that the QR fluorescence could be recovered by exposure to near ultra-violet to blue light radiation (e.g. 300-450 nm). These "reborn" QRs were found to be compact, bright, and stable, and were resistant to non-specific adsorption, which make them powerful fluorescent probes in broad biomedical applications. We demonstrated their potential in two model applications: first, the QRs were conjugated with His8-tagged small antibody mimetic proteins (also known as Affimers) for the sensitive detection of target proteins via a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) readout strategy and second, the QR surface was functionalized with biotins for targeted imaging of cancer cells.
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- Weili Wang
- School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
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Chen Y, Yang Y, Xie Q, Lai Q, Ji X, He Z. Homogeneous immunoassay for alpha-fetoprotein based on the quenching of the fluorescence of quantum dots by antibody labelled with complexed copper ion tags. Mikrochim Acta 2020; 187:252. [PMID: 32232585 DOI: 10.1007/s00604-020-04229-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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A homogeneous fluorescent immunoassay is described for the determination of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) relying on the interaction between copper ion complex and quantum dots (QDs). The copper ion complex-labelled antibody can be employed as a quencher of fluorescence of QDs and capture probe of AFP in homogeneous solution. The labelled antibody is mixed with QDs to form the immune ensemble probe. Upon the addition of AFP, the labelled antibody is stripped away from QDs by antigen-antibody combination leading to the increase in the fluorescence signal. Thus, the determination of AFP can be realized by fluorometry (best measured at excitation/emission wavelengths of 360/520 nm). The fluorescence intensity shows a good linear relationship with the AFP concentration ranging from 40 to 640 ng mL-1, and the LOD is 26 ng mL-1. The proposed method provides a new approach to incorporate metal complexes into QD-based biomolecule sensing. Graphical abstract Schematic presentation of a fluorescent probe comprised of quantum dots and antibody labelled with copper ion complex for homogeneous immunoassay of α-fetoprotein. The target antigen can break up the ground state QD/labelled antibody complex to set free the fluorescent QDs.
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- Yishi Chen
- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.
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Lanthanide-Doped Upconversion Nanomaterials: Recent Advances and Applications. BIOCHIP JOURNAL 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13206-020-4111-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Rees K, Tran MV, Massey M, Kim H, Krause KD, Algar WR. Dextran-Functionalized Semiconductor Quantum Dot Bioconjugates for Bioanalysis and Imaging. Bioconjug Chem 2020; 31:861-874. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kelly Rees
- University of British Columbia, Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Chemistry, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Jelinkova P, Mazumdar A, Sur VP, Kociova S, Dolezelikova K, Jimenez AMJ, Koudelkova Z, Mishra PK, Smerkova K, Heger Z, Vaculovicova M, Moulick A, Adam V. Nanoparticle-drug conjugates treating bacterial infections. J Control Release 2019; 307:166-185. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2019.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Algar WR, Jeen T, Massey M, Peveler WJ, Asselin J. Small Surface, Big Effects, and Big Challenges: Toward Understanding Enzymatic Activity at the Inorganic Nanoparticle-Substrate Interface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:7067-7091. [PMID: 30415548 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Enzymes are important biomarkers for molecular diagnostics and targets for the action of drugs. In turn, inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) are of interest as materials for biological assays, biosensors, cellular and in vivo imaging probes, and vectors for drug delivery and theranostics. So how does an enzyme interact with a NP, and what are the outcomes of multivalent conjugation of its substrate to a NP? This invited feature article addresses the current state of the art in answering this question. Using gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) and semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) as illustrative materials, we discuss aspects of enzyme structure-function and the properties of NP interfaces and surface chemistry that determine enzyme-NP interactions. These aspects render the substrate-on-NP configurations far more complex and heterogeneous than the conventional turnover of discrete substrate molecules in bulk solution. Special attention is also given to the limitations of a standard kinetic analysis of the enzymatic turnover of these configurations, the need for a well-defined model of turnover, and whether a "hopping" model can account for behaviors such as the apparent acceleration of enzyme activity. A detailed and predictive understanding of how enzymes turn over multivalent NP-substrate conjugates will require a convergence of many concepts and tools from biochemistry, materials, and interface science. In turn, this understanding will help to enable rational, optimized, and value-added designs of NP bioconjugates for biomedical and clinical applications.
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- W Russ Algar
- Department of Chemistry , University of British Columbia , 2036 Main Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z1 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , University of British Columbia , 2036 Main Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z1 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , University of British Columbia , 2036 Main Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z1 , Canada
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- Department of Chemistry , University of British Columbia , 2036 Main Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z1 , Canada
- Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering , University of Glasgow , Glasgow G12 8LT , United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry , University of British Columbia , 2036 Main Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z1 , Canada
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Recent advances in homogenous immunoassays based on resonance energy transfer. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2019; 55:16-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Guo J, Qiu X, Mingoes C, Deschamps JR, Susumu K, Medintz IL, Hildebrandt N. Conformational Details of Quantum Dot-DNA Resolved by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Lifetime Nanoruler. ACS NANO 2019; 13:505-514. [PMID: 30508369 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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DNA-nanoparticle conjugates are important tools in nanobiotechnology. Knowing the orientation, function, and length of DNA on nanoparticle surfaces at low nanomolar concentrations under physiological conditions is therefore of great interest. Here, we investigate the conformation of a 31 nucleotides (nt) long DNA attached to a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) from Tb-DNA probes hybridized to different positions on the QD-DNA. Precise Tb-to-QD distance determination from 7 to 14 nm along 26 nt of the peptide-appended QD-DNA was realized by time-resolved FRET spectroscopy. The FRET nanoruler measured linear single-stranded (ssDNA) and double-stranded (dsDNA) extensions of ∼0.15 and ∼0.31 nm per base, reflecting the different conformations. Comparison with biomolecular modeling confirmed the denser conformation of ssDNA and a possibly more flexible orientation on the QD surface, whereas the dsDNA was fully extended with radial orientation. The temporally distinct photoluminescence decays of the different DNA-FRET configurations were used for prototypical DNA hybridization assays that demonstrated the large potential for extended temporal multiplexing. The extensive experimental and theoretical analysis of 11 different distances/configurations of the same QD-DNA conjugate provided important information on DNA conformation on nanoparticle surfaces and will be an important benchmark for the development and optimization of DNA-nanobiosensors.
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- Jiajia Guo
- NanoBioPhotonics, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) , Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, CEA , 91400 Orsay , France
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- NanoBioPhotonics, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) , Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, CEA , 91400 Orsay , France
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- NanoBioPhotonics, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) , Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, CEA , 91400 Orsay , France
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- NanoBioPhotonics, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) , Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, CEA , 91400 Orsay , France
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Walper SA, Lasarte Aragonés G, Sapsford KE, Brown CW, Rowland CE, Breger JC, Medintz IL. Detecting Biothreat Agents: From Current Diagnostics to Developing Sensor Technologies. ACS Sens 2018; 3:1894-2024. [PMID: 30080029 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Although a fundamental understanding of the pathogenicity of most biothreat agents has been elucidated and available treatments have increased substantially over the past decades, they still represent a significant public health threat in this age of (bio)terrorism, indiscriminate warfare, pollution, climate change, unchecked population growth, and globalization. The key step to almost all prevention, protection, prophylaxis, post-exposure treatment, and mitigation of any bioagent is early detection. Here, we review available methods for detecting bioagents including pathogenic bacteria and viruses along with their toxins. An introduction placing this subject in the historical context of previous naturally occurring outbreaks and efforts to weaponize selected agents is first provided along with definitions and relevant considerations. An overview of the detection technologies that find use in this endeavor along with how they provide data or transduce signal within a sensing configuration follows. Current "gold" standards for biothreat detection/diagnostics along with a listing of relevant FDA approved in vitro diagnostic devices is then discussed to provide an overview of the current state of the art. Given the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus in Western Africa and the recent 2016 spread of Zika virus in the Americas, discussion of what constitutes a public health emergency and how new in vitro diagnostic devices are authorized for emergency use in the U.S. are also included. The majority of the Review is then subdivided around the sensing of bacterial, viral, and toxin biothreats with each including an overview of the major agents in that class, a detailed cross-section of different sensing methods in development based on assay format or analytical technique, and some discussion of related microfluidic lab-on-a-chip/point-of-care devices. Finally, an outlook is given on how this field will develop from the perspective of the biosensing technology itself and the new emerging threats they may face.
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- Scott A. Walper
- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
- College of Science, George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- OMPT/CDRH/OIR/DMD Bacterial Respiratory and Medical Countermeasures Branch, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland 20993, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
- College of Science, George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
- National Research Council, Washington, D.C. 20036, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Code 6900, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, United States
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Tanner PA, Zhou L, Duan C, Wong KL. Misconceptions in electronic energy transfer: bridging the gap between chemistry and physics. Chem Soc Rev 2018; 47:5234-5265. [PMID: 29938282 DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00002f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Many treatments of energy transfer (ET) phenomena in current literature employ incorrect arguments and formulae and are not quantitative enough. This is unfortunate because we witness important breakthroughs from ET experiments in nanoscience. This review aims to clarify basic principles by focusing upon Förster-Dexter electric dipole-electric dipole (ED-ED) ET. The roles of ET in upconversion, downconversion and the antenna effect are described and the clichés and simple formulae to be avoided in ET studies are highlighted with alternative treatments provided.
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- Peter A Tanner
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China.
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Jung S, Chen X. Quantum Dot-Dye Conjugates for Biosensing, Imaging, and Therapy. Adv Healthc Mater 2018; 7:e1800252. [PMID: 29862653 PMCID: PMC6149543 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201800252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2018] [Revised: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Adding value to the intrinsic properties of quantum dots (QDs), a strategy to conjugate dyes on the surface of QDs offers new opportunities, since the coupling between QD and dyes can be designed to allow Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and/or electron transfer (eT). These processes are accompanied by the change of QD and/or dye fluorescence and subsequent photochemical reactions (e.g., generation of 1 O2 ). Based on the change of fluorescence signals by the interaction with biomolecules, QD-dye conjugates are exploited as biosensors for the detection of pH, O2 , nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate), ions, proteases, glutathione, and microRNA. QD-dye conjugates also can be modulated by the irradiation of external light; this concept is demonstrated for fluorescence super-resolution imaging as photoactivatable or photoswitchable probes. When QDs are conjugated with photosensitizing dyes, the QD-dye conjugates can generate 1 O2 in a repetitive manner for better cancer treatment, and can also be available for approaches using two-photon excitation or bioluminescence resonance energy transfer mechanisms for deep tissue imaging. Here, the recent advances in QD-dye conjugates, where FRET or eT produces fluorescence readouts or photochemical reactions, are reviewed. Various QD-dye conjugate systems and their biosensing/imaging and photodynamic therapeutics are summarized.
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- Sungwook Jung
- Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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Gopi A, Sajitha M, Haridas R, Varghese L, Yoosaf K. Cooperative and FRET-Assisted Brightness Enhancement in Oligo(phenylene ethynylene): Quantum Dot Organic-Inorganic Nanohybrids. Chem Asian J 2018; 13:1492-1499. [PMID: 29573188 DOI: 10.1002/asia.201800328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Herein, we combine the ideas of concerted emission from fluorophore ensembles and its further amplification through FRET in an organic-inorganic hybrid approach. Spherical and highly fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONPs, Φf =0.38), prepared by the self-assembly of oligo(phenylene ethynylene) (OPE) molecules, were selected as a potential donor material. This organic core was then decorated with a shell of fluorescent CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots (QDs; <d>≅5.5 nm, Φf =0.27) with the aid of a bifunctional ligand, mercaptopropionic acid. Its high extinction coefficient (ϵ≈4.1×105 m-1 cm-1 ) and good spectral match with the emission of the FONPs (J(λ)≈4.08×1016 m-1 cm-1 nm4 ) made them a better acceptor candidate to constitute an efficient FRET pair (ΦFRET =0.8). As a result, the QD fluorescence intensity was enhanced by more than twofold. The fundamental calculations carried out indicated an improvement in all the FRET parameters as the number of QDs around the FONPs was increased. This, together with the localization of multiple QDs in a nanometric dimension (volume≈1.8×106 nm3 ), gave highly bright reddish luminescent hybrid particles as visualized under a fluorescence microscope.
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- Arun Gopi
- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India
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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India
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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India
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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India
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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST Campus, Thiruvananthapuram, 695019, Kerala, India
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Hu J, Liu MH, Zhang CY. Integration of isothermal amplification with quantum dot-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer for simultaneous detection of multiple microRNAs. Chem Sci 2018; 9:4258-4267. [PMID: 29780556 PMCID: PMC5944210 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc00832a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The integration of quantum dot-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer with rolling circle amplification enables simultaneous sensitive detection of multiple microRNAs.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate important physiological processes, and their dysregulation is associated with various human diseases. Simultaneous sensitive detection of multiple miRNAs may facilitate early clinical diagnosis. In this research, we demonstrate for the first time the integration of hyperbranched rolling circle amplification (HRCA) with quantum dot (QD)-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) for the simultaneous detection of multiple microRNAs with a single-color QD as the donor and two fluorescent dyes as the acceptors. We used miR-21 and miR-221 as target miRNAs. We designed two circular templates which may specifically hybridize with miR-21 and miR-221, respectively, for the initiation of the HRCA reaction. The products of the HRCA reaction may hybridize with both capture probes and reporter probes to form the biotinylated acceptor-labeled sandwich hybrids. The resultant sandwich hybrids can assemble on the surface of the QD, enabling efficient FRET between the QD and the acceptors, with the Cy3 signal indicating the presence of miR-21 and the Texas Red signal indicating the presence of miR-221. This assay has significant advantages of simplicity and low cost. The HRCA reaction can be performed under isothermal conditions with the same reverse primer for different target miRNAs, and the products of the HRCA reaction for both miR-21 and miR-221 can specifically hybridize with the same capture probes. This assay exhibits excellent specificity and high sensitivity with a detection limit of 7.2 × 10–16 M for miR-21 and 1.6 × 10–17 M for miR-221, and it can be used for simultaneous detection of multiple miRNAs in human cancer cells, holding great potential in biomedical research and clinical diagnosis.
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- Juan Hu
- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong , Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes , Ministry of Education , Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals , Shandong Normal University , Jinan 250014 , China . ; ; Tel: +86 531 86186033
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong , Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes , Ministry of Education , Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals , Shandong Normal University , Jinan 250014 , China . ; ; Tel: +86 531 86186033
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong , Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes , Ministry of Education , Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals , Shandong Normal University , Jinan 250014 , China . ; ; Tel: +86 531 86186033
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Efros AL, Delehanty JB, Huston AL, Medintz IL, Barbic M, Harris TD. Evaluating the potential of using quantum dots for monitoring electrical signals in neurons. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2018; 13:278-288. [PMID: 29636589 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0107-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Success in the projects aimed at providing an advanced understanding of the brain is directly predicated on making critical advances in nanotechnology. This Perspective addresses the unique interface of neuroscience and nanomaterials by considering the foundational problem of sensing neuron membrane voltage and offers a potential solution that may be facilitated by a prototypical nanomaterial. Despite substantial improvements, the visualization of instantaneous voltage changes within individual neurons, whether in cell culture or in vivo, at both the single-cell and network level at high speed remains complex and problematic. The unique properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have made them powerful fluorophores for bioimaging. What is not widely appreciated, however, is that QD photoluminescence is exquisitely sensitive to proximal electric fields. This property should be suitable for sensing voltage changes that occur in the active neuronal membrane. Here, we examine the potential role of QDs in addressing the important challenge of real-time optical voltage imaging.
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- Alexander L Efros
- Center for Computational Materials Science (6390), US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (6900), US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
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- Optical Sciences Division (5611), US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering (6900), US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
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- Applied Physics and Instrumentation Group, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Applied Physics and Instrumentation Group, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.
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La Rosa M, Denisov SA, Jonusauskas G, McClenaghan ND, Credi A. Designed Long-Lived Emission from CdSe Quantum Dots through Reversible Electronic Energy Transfer with a Surface-Bound Chromophore. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:3104-3107. [PMID: 29383800 PMCID: PMC5873259 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201712403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Revised: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The size-tunable emission of luminescent quantum dots (QDs) makes them highly interesting for applications that range from bioimaging to optoelectronics. For the same applications, engineering their luminescence lifetime, in particular, making it longer, would be as important; however, no rational approach to reach this goal is available to date. We describe a strategy to prolong the emission lifetime of QDs through electronic energy shuttling to the triplet excited state of a surface-bound molecular chromophore. To implement this idea, we made CdSe QDs of different sizes and carried out self-assembly with a pyrene derivative. We observed that the conjugates exhibit delayed luminescence, with emission decays that are prolonged by more than 3 orders of magnitude (lifetimes up to 330 μs) compared to the parent CdSe QDs. The mechanism invokes unprecedented reversible quantum dot to organic chromophore electronic energy transfer.
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- Marcello La Rosa
- CLAN-Center for Light Activated NanostructuresUniversità di Bologna and Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheVia Gobetti 10140129BolognaItaly
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-alimentariUniversità di BolognaViale Fanin 5040127BolognaItaly
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS UMR 5255Université de Bordeaux33405TalenceFrance
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, CNRS UMR 5798Université de Bordeaux33405TalenceFrance
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS UMR 5255Université de Bordeaux33405TalenceFrance
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- CLAN-Center for Light Activated NanostructuresUniversità di Bologna and Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheVia Gobetti 10140129BolognaItaly
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-alimentariUniversità di BolognaViale Fanin 5040127BolognaItaly
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Photoactive hybrid nanosystem based on CdS quantum dot and novel diarylethylene photochrome as FRET acceptor. Chem Phys Lett 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2018.02.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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La Rosa M, Denisov SA, Jonusauskas G, McClenaghan ND, Credi A. Designed Long-Lived Emission from CdSe Quantum Dots through Reversible Electronic Energy Transfer with a Surface-Bound Chromophore. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201712403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Marcello La Rosa
- CLAN-Center for Light Activated Nanostructures; Università di Bologna and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-alimentari; Università di Bologna; Viale Fanin 50 40127 Bologna Italy
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS UMR 5255; Université de Bordeaux; 33405 Talence France
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, CNRS UMR 5798; Université de Bordeaux; 33405 Talence France
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- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, CNRS UMR 5255; Université de Bordeaux; 33405 Talence France
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- CLAN-Center for Light Activated Nanostructures; Università di Bologna and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Via Gobetti 101 40129 Bologna Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-alimentari; Università di Bologna; Viale Fanin 50 40127 Bologna Italy
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Das A, Roy D, De CK, Mandal PK. "Where does the fluorescing moiety reside in a carbon dot?" - Investigations based on fluorescence anisotropy decay and resonance energy transfer dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:2251-2259. [PMID: 29303187 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07411e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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It has been shown recently that aggregated dyes are responsible for very high fluorescence in a carbon dot (CD). However, what is the location of the fluorescing moiety in CD? Is it inside the CD or attached to the CD's surface? In order to answer these intriguing questions regarding the location of the fluorescing moiety in a CD, we performed rotational anisotropy decay dynamics and resonance energy transfer (RET) dynamics. Rotational correlation time of ∼120 picoseconds nullifies the fact that the whole CD is fluorescing. Instead, we can say that the fluorescing moiety is either embedded inside the CD or attached to the surface of the CD or linked to the CD through covalent bonds. From the fluorescence anisotropy decay dynamics in solvents of different viscosities, we could show that the fluorescing moiety is not attached to the surface of the CD or for that matter, the fluorescing moiety is not in a rigid environment inside the CD. RET dynamical analysis has shown that the time for RET (from CD to acceptor Rh123) is about 5.4 ns and the RET dynamics are independent of the acceptor concentration. Using RET dynamics, we could prove that the fluorescing moiety is not outside the CD; rather, it is inside the CD, but not in a rigid environment. The geometric distance between the fluorescing moiety of the CD and the acceptor (Rh123) has been obtained to be 4.55 nm. Using Förster formulation, the distance between the fluorescing moiety inside the CD and the acceptor Rh123 has been calculated to be 4.24 nm. Thus, we could not only reveal the exact location of the fluorescing moiety in a CD, but we could also demonstrate that unlike for many other nanomaterials, Förster formulation could explain the experimental observables regarding RET involving CD reasonably well.
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- Ananya Das
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur, West-Bengal 741246, India.
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Tovstun SA, Brichkin SB, Spirin MG, Gak VY, Razumov VF. Specifics of luminescence of nanoclusters consisting of InP@ZnS colloidal quantum dots stabilized by oleylamine. HIGH ENERGY CHEMISTRY 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0018143917060091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Synthesis of Quantum Dot-ZnS Nanosheet Inorganic Assembly with Low Thermal Fluorescent Quenching for LED Application. MATERIALS 2017; 10:ma10111242. [PMID: 29076993 PMCID: PMC5706189 DOI: 10.3390/ma10111242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Revised: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In this report, to tackle the thermal fluorescent quenching issue of II-VI semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), which hinders their on-chip packaging application to light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a QD-ZnS nanosheet inorganic assembly monolith (QD-ZnS NIAM) is developed through chemisorption of QDs on the surface of two-dimensional (2D) ZnS nanosheets and subsequent assembly of the nanosheets into a compact inorganic monolith. The QD-ZnS NIAM could reduce the thermal fluorescent quenching of QDs effectively, possibly due to fewer thermally induced permanent trap states and decreased Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) among QDs when compared with those in a reference QD composite thin film. We have demonstrated that the QD-ZnS NIAM enables QDs to be directly packaged on-chip in LEDs with over 90% of their initial luminance being retained at above 85 °C, showing advantage in LED application in comparison with conventional QD composite film.
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Dolatyari M, Rostami A, Torabi P, Klein A. Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer between an Anti-EGFR Antibody and Bi2Se3/SiO2, ZnS/SiO2, and ZnSe/SiO2Nanomaterials for Biosensor Purposes. Z Anorg Allg Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201700257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Mahboubeh Dolatyari
- SP-EPT Laboratories; ASEPE Company; 5166614761 Tabriz Iran
- Department für Chemie, Institut für Anorganische Chemie; Universität zu Köln; Greinstraße 6 50939 Köln Germany
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- SP-EPT Laboratories; ASEPE Company; 5166614761 Tabriz Iran
- OIC Research Group; University of Tabriz; 5166614761 Tabriz Iran
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- OIC Research Group; University of Tabriz; 5166614761 Tabriz Iran
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- Department für Chemie, Institut für Anorganische Chemie; Universität zu Köln; Greinstraße 6 50939 Köln Germany
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A multiple biomarker assay for quality assessment of botanical drugs using a versatile microfluidic chip. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12243. [PMID: 28947774 PMCID: PMC5612938 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12453-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Quality control is critical for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of drugs. Current quality control method for botanical drugs is mainly based on chemical testing. However, chemical testing alone may not be sufficient as it may not capture all constituents of botanical drugs. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a bioassay correlating with the drug's known mechanism of action to ensure its potency and activity. Herein we developed a multiple biomarker assay to assess the quality of botanicals using microfluidics, where enzyme inhibition was employed to indicate the drug's activity and thereby evaluate biological consistency. This approach was exemplified on QiShenYiQi Pills using thrombin and angiotensin converting enzyme as "quality biomarkers". Our results demonstrated that there existed variations in potency across different batches of the intermediates and preparations. Compared with chromatographic fingerprinting, the bioassay provided better discrimination ability for some abnormal samples. Moreover, the chip could function as "affinity chromatography" to identify bioactive phytochemicals bound to the enzymes. This work proposed a multiple-biomarker strategy for quality assessment of botanical drugs, while demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of microfluidics in this field.
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Chashchikhin OV, Budyka MF. Spectral and photochemical properties of hybrid organic-inorganic nanosystems based on CdS quantum dots and merocyanine ligands. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2017; 16:1252-1259. [PMID: 28617494 DOI: 10.1039/c7pp00137a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The spectral and photochemical properties of hybrid organic-inorganic nanosystems (HNSs) were investigated. HNS consisted of CdS quantum dots (QDs) functionalized with ligands containing the isothiouronium anchor group linked by a polymethylene chain with photochromic merocyanine (MC). The HNS synthesis was carried out via a microwave-assisted one-pot technique. Energy transfer from the QDs to MC in the HNS was observed and resulted in QD fluorescence quenching and MC sensitization. Compared to the free MC, trans-cis photoisomerization of MC in the HNS was suppressed and its photodestruction was accelerated. In addition, upon HNS photolysis by visible light with energy higher than the threshold, the photosensitized destruction of the QDs (which did not absorb the applied light) occurred. The observed effects were proposed to be caused by MC adsorption on QDs surface, which leads to the restriction of the MC photoisomerization and population of the surface electron trap states of the QDs.
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- Oleg V Chashchikhin
- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Semenova 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow region 142432, Russian Federation.
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- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Semenova 1, Chernogolovka, Moscow region 142432, Russian Federation.
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Arvand M, Mirroshandel AA. Highly-sensitive aptasensor based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer between l-cysteine capped ZnS quantum dots and graphene oxide sheets for the determination of edifenphos fungicide. Biosens Bioelectron 2017; 96:324-331. [PMID: 28525850 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.05.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Revised: 05/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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With the advantages of excellent optical properties and biocompatibility, single-strand DNA-functionalized quantum dots have been widely applied in biosensing and bioimaging. A new aptasensor with easy operation, high sensitivity, and high selectivity was developed by immobilizing the aptamer on water soluble l-cysteine capped ZnS quantum dots (QDs). Graphene oxide (GO) sheets are mixed with the aptamer-QDs. Consequently, the aptamer-conjugated QDs bind to the GO sheets to form a GO/aptamer-QDs ensemble. This aptasensor enables the energy transfer based on a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from the QDs to the GO sheets, quenching the fluorescence of QDs. The GO/aptamer-QDs ensemble assay acts as a "turn-on'' fluorescent sensor for edifenphos (EDI) detection. When GO was replaced by EDI, the fluorescence of QDs was restored and its intensity was proportional to the EDI concentration. This GO-based aptasensor under the optimum conditions exhibited excellent analytical performance for EDI determination, ranging from 5×10-4 to 6×10-3mg L-1 with the detection limit of 1.3×10-4mgL-1. Furthermore, the designed aptasensor exhibited excellent selectivity toward EDI compared to other pesticides and herbicides with similar structures such as diazinon, heptachlor, endrin, dieldrin, butachlor and chlordane. Good reproducibility and precision (RSD =3.9%, n =10) of the assay indicates the high potential of the aptasensor for quantitative trace analysis of EDI. Moreover, the results demonstrate the applicability of the aptasensor for monitoring EDI fungicide in spiked real samples.
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- Majid Arvand
- Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Guilan, Namjoo Street, P.O. Box 1914, Rasht, Iran.
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- Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Guilan, Namjoo Street, P.O. Box 1914, Rasht, Iran
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