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  • 标题:Blinking and nonradiant dark fraction of water-soluble quantum dots in aqueous solution
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  • 作者:Jie Yao ; Daniel R. Larson ; Harshad D. Vishwasrao
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:2005
  • 卷号:102
  • 期号:40
  • 页码:14284-14289
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.0506523102
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Water-soluble quantum dots (qdots) are now being used in life sciences research to take advantage of their bright, easily excited fluorescence and high photostability. Although the frequent erratic blinking and substantial dark (never radiant) fractions that occur in all available qdots may interfere with many applications, these properties of individual particles in biological environments had not been fully evaluated. By labeling Qdot-streptavidin with organic dyes, we were able to distinguish individual dark and bright qdots and to observe blinking events as qdots freely diffused in aqueous solution. Bright fractions were measured by confocal fluorescence coincidence analysis (CFCA) and two-photon cross-correlation fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). The observed bright fractions of various preparations were proportional to the ensemble quantum yields (QYs), but the intrinsic brightness of individual qdots was found to be constant across samples with different QYs but the same emission wavelengths. Increasing qdots' illuminated dwell time by 10-fold during FCS did not change the fraction of apparently dark qdots but did increase the detected fraction of blinking qdots, suggesting that the dark population does not arise from millisecond blinking. Combining CFCA with wide-field imaging of arrays of qdots localized in dilute agarose gel, the blinking of qdots was measured across five orders of magnitude in time: {approx}0.001-100 s. This research characterizes photophysical pathologies of qdots in biologically relevant environments rather than adhered on dielectric surfaces and describes methods that are useful for studying various bioapplicable nanoparticles.
  • 关键词:nanoparticles ; fluorescence ; correlation ; spectroscopy ; imaging
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