Ultrabright Supramolecular Beacons Based on the Self-Assembly of Two-Photon Chromophores on Metal Nanoparticles
摘要:
Silver nanoparticles coated with a self-assembled layer of approximately 2500 chromophoric alkylthiol ligands, that exhibit a huge per particle two-photon absorption cross section (2.7 x 10-45 cm4 s photon-1) and a high fluorescence quantum yield (0.33), are reported. Polyfunctionalized variants of these nanoparticles have been produced that show reasonable solubility in water/ethanol mixtures. By virtue of the large number of tethered chromophores, these particles act as strongly two-photon absorbing nanobeacons and may have applications in fluorescence imaging and sensing.
Five Orders-of-Magnitude Enhancement of Two-Photon Absorption for Dyes on Silver Nanoparticle Fractal Clusters
作者:Wim Wenseleers、Francesco Stellacci、Timo Meyer-Friedrichsen、Timo Mangel、Christina A. Bauer、Stephanie J. K. Pond、Seth R. Marder、Joseph W. Perry
DOI:10.1021/jp014675f
日期:2002.7.1
Strong enhancement of the two-photon absorption of organic molecules near silver nanoparticle fractal clusters has been observed and has been exploited to yield composite materials with very strong two-photon absorption and two-photon-excited fluorescence properties. Measurements on cluster films coated with chromophoric polymer or with thiol-bound chromophores give spatially-averaged enhancements of 1000 and 20 000, respectively. Two-photon fluorescence microscopy studies show that the enhancements are spatially inhomogeneous, with peak-enhancement factors of greater than or equal to 10 000 (polymer/cluster) and greater than or equal to 160 000 (thiol chromophore/cluster), and excitation frequency dependent. These results are in accord with theoretical predictions of local-field effects due to strong localization of collective plasmon modes in fractal metal clusters, and demonstrate an approach to ultrasensitive two-photon processes.
Ultrabright Supramolecular Beacons Based on the Self-Assembly of Two-Photon Chromophores on Metal Nanoparticles
作者:Francesco Stellacci、Christina A. Bauer、Timo Meyer-Friedrichsen、Wim Wenseleers、Seth R. Marder、Joseph W. Perry
DOI:10.1021/ja0281277
日期:2003.1.1
Silver nanoparticles coated with a self-assembled layer of approximately 2500 chromophoric alkylthiol ligands, that exhibit a huge per particle two-photon absorption cross section (2.7 x 10-45 cm4 s photon-1) and a high fluorescence quantum yield (0.33), are reported. Polyfunctionalized variants of these nanoparticles have been produced that show reasonable solubility in water/ethanol mixtures. By virtue of the large number of tethered chromophores, these particles act as strongly two-photon absorbing nanobeacons and may have applications in fluorescence imaging and sensing.