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Sensitization of upconverting nanoparticles with a NIR-emissive cyanine dye using a micellar encapsulation approach.
Saleh, Maysoon I; Panas, Ihor D; Frenzel, Florian; Würth, Christian; Rühle, Bastian; Slominskii, Yuri L; Demchenko, Aleksander; Resch-Genger, Ute.
Afiliação
  • Saleh MI; Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Division Biophotonics, Richard-Willstätter-Str. 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Methods Appl Fluoresc ; 7(1): 014003, 2019 Jan 23.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30641489
Photon upconversion nanomaterials have a wide range of applications, including biosensing and deep-tissue imaging. Their typically very weak and narrow absorption bands together with their size dependent luminescence efficiency can limit their application potential. This has been addressed by increasingly sophisticated core-shell particle architectures including the sensitization with organic dyes that strongly absorb in the near infrared (NIR). In this work, we present a simple water-dispersible micellar system that features energy transfer from the novel NIR excitable dye, 1859 SL with a high molar absorption coefficient and a moderate fluorescence quantum yield to oleate-capped NaYF4:20%Yb(III), 2%Er(III) upconversion nanoparticles (UCNP) upon 808 nm excitation. The micelles were formed using the surfactants Pluronic F-127 and Tween 80 to produce a hydrophilic dye-UCNP system. Successful energy transfer from the dye to the UCNP could be confirmed by emission measurements that revealed the occurrence of upconversion emission upon excitation at 808 nm and an enhancement of the green Er(III) emission compared to direct Er(III) excitation at 808 nm.

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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article