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Chattopadhyay S, Biteen JS. Super-Resolution Characterization of Heterogeneous Light-Matter Interactions between Single Dye Molecules and Plasmonic Nanoparticles. Anal Chem 2021; 93:430-444. [PMID: 33100005 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Saaj Chattopadhyay
- Applied Physics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Cheng X, Anthony TP, West CA, Hu Z, Sundaresan V, McLeod AJ, Masiello DJ, Willets KA. Plasmon Heating Promotes Ligand Reorganization on Single Gold Nanorods. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:1394-1401. [PMID: 30840464 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy is used to follow dynamic ligand reorganization on the surface of single plasmonic gold nanorods. Fluorescently labeled DNA is attached to gold nanorods via a gold-thiol bond using a low-pH loading method. No fluorescence activity is initially observed from the fluorescent labels on the nanorod surface, which we attribute to a collapsed geometry of DNA on the metal. Upon several minutes of laser illumination, a marked increase in fluorescence activity is observed, suggesting that the ligand shell reorganizes from a collapsed, quenched geometry to an upright, ordered geometry. The ligand reorganization is facilitated by plasmon-mediated photothermal heating, as verified by controls using an external heat source and simulated by coupled optical and heat diffusion modeling. Using super-resolution image reconstruction, we observe spatial variations in which ligand reorganization occurs at the single-particle level. The results suggest the possibility of nonuniform plasmonic heating, which would be hidden with traditional ensemble-averaged measurements.
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- Xiaoyu Cheng
- Department of Chemistry , Temple University , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19122 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Temple University , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19122 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Temple University , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19122 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Temple University , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19122 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Temple University , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19122 , United States
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Pujals S, Feiner-Gracia N, Delcanale P, Voets I, Albertazzi L. Super-resolution microscopy as a powerful tool to study complex synthetic materials. Nat Rev Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1038/s41570-018-0070-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Zou N, Chen G, Mao X, Shen H, Choudhary E, Zhou X, Chen P. Imaging Catalytic Hotspots on Single Plasmonic Nanostructures via Correlated Super-Resolution and Electron Microscopy. ACS NANO 2018; 12:5570-5579. [PMID: 29860829 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Surface-plasmon (SP) enhanced catalysis on plasmonic nanostructures brings opportunities to increase catalytic efficiency and alter catalytic selectivity. Understanding the underlying mechanism requires quantitative measurements of catalytic enhancement on these nanostructures, whose intrinsic structural heterogeneity presents experimental challenges. Using correlated super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy, here we report a quantitative visualization of SP-enhanced catalytic activity at the nanoscale within single plasmonic nanostructures. We focus on two Au- and Ag-based linked nanostructures that present plasmonic hotspots at nanoscale gaps. Spatially localized higher reaction rates at these gaps vs nongap regions report the SP-induced catalytic enhancements, which show direct correlations with the nanostructure geometries and local electric field enhancements. Furthermore, the catalytic enhancement scales quadratically with the local actual light intensity, attributable to hot electron involvement in the catalytic enhancement mechanism. These discoveries highlight the effectiveness of correlated super-resolution and electron microscopy in interrogating nanoscale catalytic properties.
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- Ningmu Zou
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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Taylor A, Verhoef R, Beuwer M, Wang Y, Zijlstra P. All-Optical Imaging of Gold Nanoparticle Geometry Using Super-Resolution Microscopy. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2018; 122:2336-2342. [PMID: 29422979 PMCID: PMC5797984 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b12473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We demonstrate the all-optical reconstruction of gold nanoparticle geometry using super-resolution microscopy. We employ DNA-PAINT to get exquisite control over the (un)binding kinetics by the number of complementary bases and salt concentration, leading to localization accuracies of ∼5 nm. We employ a dye with an emission spectrum strongly blue-shifted from the plasmon resonance to minimize mislocalization due to plasmon-fluorophore coupling. We correlate the all-optical reconstructions with atomic force microscopy images and find that reconstructed dimensions deviate by no more than ∼10%. Numerical modeling shows that this deviation is determined by the number of events per particle, and the signal-to-background ratio in our measurement. We further find good agreement between the reconstructed orientation and aspect ratio of the particles and single-particle scattering spectroscopy. This method may provide an approach to all-optically image the geometry of single particles in confined spaces such as microfluidic circuits and biological cells, where access with electron beams or tip-based probes is prohibited.
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Fu B, Isaacoff BP, Biteen JS. Super-Resolving the Actual Position of Single Fluorescent Molecules Coupled to a Plasmonic Nanoantenna. ACS NANO 2017; 11:8978-8987. [PMID: 28806873 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) enhance the radiative decay rate of adjacent dyes and can significantly increase fluorescence intensity for improved spectroscopy. However, the NP nanoantenna complicates super-resolution imaging by introducing a mislocalization between the emitter position and its super-resolved emission position. The mislocalization magnitude depends strongly on the dye/NP coupling geometry. It is therefore crucial to quantify mislocalization to recover the actual emitter position in a coupled system. Here, we super-resolve in two and three dimensions the distance-dependent emission mislocalization of single fluorescent molecules coupled to gold NPs with precise distance tuning via double-stranded DNA. We develop an analytical framework to uncover detailed spatial information when direct 3D imaging is not accessible. Overall, we demonstrate that by taking measurements on a single, well-defined, and symmetric dye/NP assembly and by accounting explicitly for artifacts from super-resolution imaging, we can measure the true nanophotonic mislocalization. We measure up to 50 nm mislocalizations and show that smaller separation distances lead to larger mislocalizations, also verified by electromagnetic calculations. Overall, by quantifying the distance-dependent mislocalization shift in this gold NP/dye coupled system, we show that the actual physical position of a coupled single emitter can be recovered.
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- Bing Fu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1055, United States
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This review describes the growing partnership between super-resolution imaging and plasmonics, by describing the various ways in which the two topics mutually benefit one another to enhance our understanding of the nanoscale world. First, localization-based super-resolution imaging strategies, where molecules are modulated between emissive and nonemissive states and their emission localized, are applied to plasmonic nanoparticle substrates, revealing the hidden shape of the nanoparticles while also mapping local electromagnetic field enhancements and reactivity patterns on their surface. However, these results must be interpreted carefully due to localization errors induced by the interaction between metallic substrates and single fluorophores. Second, plasmonic nanoparticles are explored as image contrast agents for both superlocalization and super-resolution imaging, offering benefits such as high photostability, large signal-to-noise, and distance-dependent spectral features but presenting challenges for localizing individual nanoparticles within a diffraction-limited spot. Finally, the use of plasmon-tailored excitation fields to achieve subdiffraction-limited spatial resolution is discussed, using localized surface plasmons and surface plasmon polaritons to create confined excitation volumes or image magnification to enhance spatial resolution.
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- Katherine A Willets
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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De Silva Indrasekara AS, Shuang B, Hollenhorst F, Hoener BS, Hoggard A, Chen S, Villarreal E, Cai YY, Kisley L, Derry PJ, Chang WS, Zubarev ER, Ringe E, Link S, Landes CF. Optimization of Spectral and Spatial Conditions to Improve Super-Resolution Imaging of Plasmonic Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:299-306. [PMID: 27982600 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Interactions between fluorophores and plasmonic nanoparticles modify the fluorescence intensity, shape, and position of the observed emission pattern, thus inhibiting efforts to optically super-resolve plasmonic nanoparticles. Herein, we investigate the accuracy of localizing dye fluorescence as a function of the spectral and spatial separations between fluorophores (Alexa 647) and gold nanorods (NRs). The distance at which Alexa 647 interacts with NRs is varied by layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte deposition while the spectral separation is tuned by using NRs with varying localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) maxima. For resonantly coupled Alexa 647 and NRs, emission to the far field through the NR plasmon is highly prominent, resulting in underestimation of NR sizes. However, we demonstrate that it is possible to improve the accuracy of the emission localization when both the spectral and spatial separations between Alexa 647 and the LSPR are optimized.
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-325, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-325, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-325, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-366, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-60, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University , 6100 Main Street, MS-366, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Hauser M, Wojcik M, Kim D, Mahmoudi M, Li W, Xu K. Correlative Super-Resolution Microscopy: New Dimensions and New Opportunities. Chem Rev 2017; 117:7428-7456. [PMID: 28045508 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Correlative microscopy, the integration of two or more microscopy techniques performed on the same sample, produces results that emphasize the strengths of each technique while offsetting their individual weaknesses. Light microscopy has historically been a central method in correlative microscopy due to its widespread availability, compatibility with hydrated and live biological samples, and excellent molecular specificity through fluorescence labeling. However, conventional light microscopy can only achieve a resolution of ∼300 nm, undercutting its advantages in correlations with higher-resolution methods. The rise of super-resolution microscopy (SRM) over the past decade has drastically improved the resolution of light microscopy to ∼10 nm, thus creating exciting new opportunities and challenges for correlative microscopy. Here we review how these challenges are addressed to effectively correlate SRM with other microscopy techniques, including light microscopy, electron microscopy, cryomicroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and various forms of spectroscopy. Though we emphasize biological studies, we also discuss the application of correlative SRM to materials characterization and single-molecule reactions. Finally, we point out current limitations and discuss possible future improvements and advances. We thus demonstrate how a correlative approach adds new dimensions of information and provides new opportunities in the fast-growing field of SRM.
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- Meghan Hauser
- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Center for Nanomedicine and Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States.,Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Super-resolution imaging of light-matter interactions near single semiconductor nanowires. Nat Commun 2016; 7:13950. [PMID: 27996010 PMCID: PMC5187462 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Nanophotonics is becoming invaluable for an expanding range of applications, from controlling the spontaneous emission rate and the directionality of quantum emitters, to reducing material requirements of solar cells by an order of magnitude. These effects are highly dependent on the near field of the nanostructure, which constitutes the evanescent fields from propagating and resonant localized modes. Although the interactions between quantum emitters and nanophotonic structures are increasingly well understood theoretically, directly imaging these interactions experimentally remains challenging. Here we demonstrate a photoactivated localization microscopy-based technique to image emitter-nanostructure interactions. For a 75 nm diameter silicon nanowire, we directly observe a confluence of emission rate enhancement, directivity modification and guided mode excitation, with strong interaction at scales up to 13 times the nanowire diameter. Furthermore, through analytical modelling we distinguish the relative contribution of these effects, as well as their dependence on emitter orientation.
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Lim K, Ropp C, Barik S, Fourkas J, Shapiro B, Waks E. Nanostructure-Induced Distortion in Single-Emitter Microscopy. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:5415-5419. [PMID: 27552289 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Single-emitter microscopy has emerged as a promising method of imaging nanostructures with nanoscale resolution. This technique uses the centroid position of an emitter's far-field radiation pattern to infer its position to a precision that is far below the diffraction limit. However, nanostructures composed of high-dielectric materials such as noble metals can distort the far-field radiation pattern. Previous work has shown that these distortions can significantly degrade the imaging of the local density of states in metallic nanowires using polarization-resolved imaging. But unlike nanowires, nanoparticles do not have a well-defined axis of symmetry, which makes polarization-resolved imaging difficult to apply. Nanoparticles also exhibit a more complex range of distortions, because in addition to introducing a high dielectric surface, they also act as efficient scatterers. Thus, the distortion effects of nanoparticles in single-emitter microscopy remains poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that metallic nanoparticles can significantly distort the accuracy of single-emitter imaging at distances exceeding 300 nm. We use a single quantum dot to probe both the magnitude and the direction of the metallic nanoparticle-induced imaging distortion and show that the diffraction spot of the quantum dot can shift by more than 35 nm. The centroid position of the emitter generally shifts away from the nanoparticle position, which is in contradiction to the conventional wisdom that the nanoparticle is a scattering object that will pull in the diffraction spot of the emitter toward its center. These results suggest that dielectric distortion of the emission pattern dominates over scattering. We also show that by monitoring the distortion of the quantum dot diffraction spot we can obtain high-resolution spatial images of the nanoparticle, providing a new method for performing highly precise, subdiffraction spatial imaging. These results provide a better understanding of the complex near-field coupling between emitters and nanostructures and open up new opportunities to perform super-resolution microscopy with higher accuracy.
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- Kangmook Lim
- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Yuan H, Lu Y, Wang Z, Ren Z, Wang Y, Zhang S, Zhang X, Chen J. Single nanoporous gold nanowire as a tunable one-dimensional platform for plasmon-enhanced fluorescence. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 52:1808-11. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc08149a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Up to ∼62-fold enhancement of fluorescence can be obtained on individual nanoporous Au nanowires, ∼8-fold higher than that of smooth Au nanowires.
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- Hang Yuan
- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology
- Beijing Key Lab of Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology
- Beijing Key Lab of Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology
- Beijing Key Lab of Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology
- Beijing Key Lab of Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
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- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology
- Beijing Key Lab of Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
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- Department of Chemistry
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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- Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology
- Beijing Key Lab of Radioactive Waste Treatment
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
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Blythe KL, Titus EJ, Willets KA. Objective-Induced Point Spread Function Aberrations and Their Impact on Super-Resolution Microscopy. Anal Chem 2015; 87:6419-24. [PMID: 26011175 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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This study demonstrates how different microscope objectives can lead to asymmetric imaging aberrations in the point spread function of dipolar emitters, which can adversely affect the quality of fit in super-resolution imaging. Luminescence from gold nanorods was imaged with four different objectives to measure the diffraction-limited emission and characterize deviations from the expected dipolar emission patterns. Each luminescence image was fit to a three-dipole emission model to generate fit residuals that visually relay aberrations in the point spread function caused by the different microscope objectives. Output parameters from the fit model were compared to experimentally measured values, and we find that while some objectives provide high quality fits across all nanorods studied, others show significant aberrations and are inappropriate for super-resolution imaging. This work presents a simple and robust strategy for quickly assessing the quality of point spread functions produced by different microscope objectives.
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- Karole L Blythe
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 102 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 102 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 102 East 24th Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Visualization of molecular fluorescence point spread functions via remote excitation switching fluorescence microscopy. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6287. [PMID: 25687887 PMCID: PMC4339893 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2014] [Accepted: 01/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The enhancement of molecular absorption, emission and scattering processes by coupling to surface plasmon polaritons on metallic nanoparticles is a key issue in plasmonics for applications in (bio)chemical sensing, light harvesting and photocatalysis. Nevertheless, the point spread functions for single-molecule emission near metallic nanoparticles remain difficult to characterize due to fluorophore photodegradation, background emission and scattering from the plasmonic structure. Here we overcome this problem by exciting fluorophores remotely using plasmons propagating along metallic nanowires. The experiments reveal a complex array of single-molecule fluorescence point spread functions that depend not only on nanowire dimensions but also on the position and orientation of the molecular transition dipole. This work has consequences for both single-molecule regime-sensing and super-resolution imaging involving metallic nanoparticles and opens the possibilities for fast size sorting of metallic nanoparticles, and for predicting molecular orientation and binding position on metallic nanoparticles via far-field optical imaging. Plasmonic nanoparticles can dramatically enhance the optical properties of molecules but background scattering is a limiting factor. Su et al. use remote excitation by plasmons on nanowires to better access single fluorophore point spread functions for improved sensing and super-resolution imaging.
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Olson J, Dominguez-Medina S, Hoggard A, Wang LY, Chang WS, Link S. Optical characterization of single plasmonic nanoparticles. Chem Soc Rev 2015; 44:40-57. [PMID: 24979351 PMCID: PMC4641313 DOI: 10.1039/c4cs00131a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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This tutorial review surveys the optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles studied by various single particle spectroscopy techniques. The surface plasmon resonance of metallic nanoparticles depends sensitively on the nanoparticle geometry and its environment, with even relatively minor deviations causing significant changes in the optical spectrum. Because for chemically prepared nanoparticles a distribution of their size and shape is inherent, ensemble spectra of such samples are inhomogeneously broadened, hiding the properties of the individual nanoparticles. The ability to measure one nanoparticle at a time using single particle spectroscopy can overcome this limitation. This review provides an overview of different steady-state single particle spectroscopy techniques that provide detailed insight into the spectral characteristics of plasmonic nanoparticles.
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- Jana Olson
- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Johnson SA. Nanoscopy for nanoscience: how super-resolution microscopy extends imaging for nanotechnology. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-NANOMEDICINE AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY 2014; 7:266-81. [PMID: 25298332 DOI: 10.1002/wnan.1300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2014] [Revised: 07/13/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Imaging methods have presented scientists with powerful means of investigation for centuries. The ability to resolve structures using light microscopes is though limited to around 200 nm. Fluorescence-based super-resolution light microscopy techniques of several principles and methods have emerged in recent years and offer great potential to extend the capabilities of microscopy. This resolution improvement is especially promising for nanoscience where the imaging of nanoscale structures is inherently restricted by the resolution limit of standard forms of light microscopy. Resolution can be improved by several distinct approaches including structured illumination microscopy, stimulated emission depletion, and single-molecule positioning methods such as photoactivated localization microscopy and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy and several derivative variations of each of these. These methods involve substantial differences in the resolutions achievable in the different axes, speed of acquisition, compatibility with different labels, ease of use, hardware complexity, and compatibility with live biological samples. The field of super-resolution imaging and its application to nanotechnology is relatively new and still rapidly developing. An overview of how these methods may be used with nanomaterials is presented with some examples of pioneering uses of these approaches.
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- Sam A Johnson
- Light Microscopy Core Facility, Duke University and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Nauert S, Paul A, Zhen YR, Solis D, Vigderman L, Chang WS, Zubarev ER, Nordlander P, Link S. Influence of cross sectional geometry on surface plasmon polariton propagation in gold nanowires. ACS NANO 2014; 8:572-580. [PMID: 24308802 DOI: 10.1021/nn405183r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We investigated the effects of cross sectional geometry on surface plasmon polariton propagation in gold nanowires (NWs) using bleach-imaged plasmon propagation and electromagnetic simulations. Chemically synthesized NWs have pentagonally twinned crystal structures, but recent advances in synthesis have made it possible to amplify this pentagonal shape to yield NWs with a five-pointed-star cross section and sharp end tips. We found experimentally that NWs with a five-pointed-star cross section, referred to as SNWs, had a shorter propagation length for surface plasmon polaritons at 785 nm, but a higher effective incoupling efficiency compared to smooth NWs with a pentagonal cross section, labeled as PNWs. Electromagnetic simulations revealed that the electric fields were localized at the sharp ridges of the SNWs, leading to higher absorptive losses and hence shorter propagation lengths compared to PNWs. On the other hand, scattering losses were found to be relatively uncorrelated with cross sectional geometry, but were strongly dependent on the plasmon mode excited. Our results provide insight into the shape-dependent waveguiding properties of chemically synthesized metal NWs and the mode-dependent loss mechanisms that govern surface plasmon polariton propagation.
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- Scott Nauert
- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, and §Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University , Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Blythe KL, Titus EJ, Willets KA. Triplet-State-Mediated Super-Resolution Imaging of Fluorophore-Labeled Gold Nanorods. Chemphyschem 2013; 15:784-93. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201300767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Solis D, Paul A, Olson J, Slaughter LS, Swanglap P, Chang WS, Link S. Turning the corner: efficient energy transfer in bent plasmonic nanoparticle chain waveguides. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:4779-84. [PMID: 24020385 DOI: 10.1021/nl402358h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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For integrating and multiplexing of subwavelength plasmonic waveguides with other optical and electric components, complex architectures such as junctions with sharp turns are necessary. However, in addition to intrinsic losses, bending losses severely limit plasmon propagation. In the current work, we demonstrate that propagation of surface plasmon polaritons around 90° turns in silver nanoparticle chains occurs without bending losses. Using a far-field fluorescence method, bleach-imaged plasmon propagation (BlIPP), which creates a permanent map of the plasmonic near-field through bleaching of a fluorophore coated on top of a plasmonic waveguide, we measured propagation lengths at 633 nm for straight and bent silver nanoparticle chains of 8.0 ± 0.5 and 7.8 ± 0.4 μm, respectively. These propagation lengths were independent of the input polarization. We furthermore show that subradiant plasmon modes yield a longer propagation length compared to energy transport via excitation of super-radiant modes.
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- David Solis
- Department of Chemistry and †Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, Rice University , Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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Titus EJ, Willets KA. Superlocalization surface-enhanced Raman scattering microscopy: comparing point spread function models in the ensemble and single-molecule limits. ACS NANO 2013; 7:8284-8294. [PMID: 23985039 DOI: 10.1021/nn403891t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In this report, we compare the effectiveness of various dipole and Gaussian point spread function (PSF) models for fitting diffraction-limited surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) emission images from rhodamine 6G-labeled nanoparticle dimers at both the high-concentration and single-molecule limit. Of all models tested, a 3-axis dipole PSF gives the best approximation to the experimental PSF, although none of the models utilized in the study were without systematic error when fitting the experimental data. In the high-concentration regime, all models localize the SERS emission to a stationary centroid position, with the dipole models providing additional orientation parameters that closely match the geometry of the dimer, indicating that the molecules are coupled to all resonant plasmon modes of the nanostructure. In the single-molecule case, the different models show a mobile SERS centroid, consistent with single-molecule motion on the surface, but the behavior of the centroid is model-dependent. Despite the centroid mobility in the single-molecule regime, the dipole PSF models still give accurate orientation information on the underlying dimer structure, although with less precision than the ensemble-averaged samples.
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- Eric J Titus
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin , 105 E. 24th Street STOP A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Titus EJ, Willets KA. Accuracy of superlocalization imaging using Gaussian and dipole emission point-spread functions for modeling gold nanorod luminescence. ACS NANO 2013; 7:6258-6267. [PMID: 23725587 DOI: 10.1021/nn4022845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We present a study comparing the accuracy of superlocalization imaging of plasmon-mediated emission from gold nanorods (AuNRs) using both Gaussian and dipole emission point-spread function (PSF) models. By fitting the emission PSF of single AuNR luminescence, we have shown that a 3-axis dipole PSF gives improved localization accuracy over the Gaussian PSF, especially for nonplanar AuNRs, while also allowing the AuNR three-dimensional orientation and emission wavelength to be determined. On the other hand, when a single-axis dipole PSF model is applied to the AuNR emission, the fit estimates converge to values that are inconsistent with their experimentally measured values, affecting both the localization accuracy and precision of the fitted centroid position. These results indicate that when applying superlocalization techniques to plasmonic nanostructures, care must be taken to understand the nature of the emission before a correct dipole PSF can be applied.
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- Eric J Titus
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 East 24th Street STOP A5300, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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