Plasmonic optical manipulation has emerged as an affordable alternative to manipulate single chemical and biological molecules in nanoscience.Although the theoretical models of sub-5 nm single-molecule trapping have b...Plasmonic optical manipulation has emerged as an affordable alternative to manipulate single chemical and biological molecules in nanoscience.Although the theoretical models of sub-5 nm single-molecule trapping have been considered promising,the experimental strategies remain a challenge due to the Brownian motions and weak optical gradient forces with significantly reduced molecular polarizability.Herein,we address direct trapping and in situ sensing of single molecules with unprecedented size,down to∼5Åin solution,by employing an adjustable plasmonic optical nanogap and single-molecule conductance measurement.The theoretical simulations demonstrate that local fields with a high enhancement factor,over 103,were generated at such small nanogaps,resulting in optical forces as large as several piconewtons to suppress the Brownian motion and trap a molecule of length sub-1 nm.This work demonstrates a strategy for directly manipulating the small molecule units,promising a vast multitude of applications in chemical,biological,and materials sciences at the single-molecule level.展开更多
Nanoscale noble metals can exhibit excellent photochemical and photophysical properties, due to surface plasmon resonance(SPR) from specifically collective electronic excitations on these metal surfaces. The SPR effec...Nanoscale noble metals can exhibit excellent photochemical and photophysical properties, due to surface plasmon resonance(SPR) from specifically collective electronic excitations on these metal surfaces. The SPR effect triggers many new surface processes, including radiation and radiationless relaxations. As for the radiation process, the SPR effect causes the significant focus of light and enormous enhancement of the local surface optical electric field, as observed in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy(SERS) with very high detection sensitivity(to the single-molecule level). SERS is used to identify surface species and characterize molecular structures and chemical reactions. For the radiationless process, the SPR effect can generate hot carriers, such as hot electrons and hot holes, which can induce and enhance surface chemical reactions. Here, we review our recent work and related literature on surface catalytic-coupling reactions of aromatic amines and aromatic nitro compounds on nanostructured noble metal surfaces. Such reactions are a type of novel surface plasmon-enhanced chemical reaction. They could be simultaneously characterized by SERS when the SERS signals are assigned. By combining the density functional theory(DFT) calculations and SERS experimental spectra, our results indicate the possible pathways of the surface plasmonenhanced photochemical reactions on nanostructures of noble metals. To construct a stable and sustainable system in the conversion process of the light energy to the chemical energy on nanoscale metal surfaces, it is necessary to simultaneously consider the hot electrons and the hot holes as a whole chemical reaction system.展开更多
Emerging nanozymes with natural enzyme-mimicking catalytic activities have inspired extensive research interests due to their high stability,low cost,and simple preparation,especially in the field of catalytic tumor t...Emerging nanozymes with natural enzyme-mimicking catalytic activities have inspired extensive research interests due to their high stability,low cost,and simple preparation,especially in the field of catalytic tumor therapy.Here,bio-breakable nanozymes based on glucose-oxidase(GOx)-loaded biomimetic Au–Ag hollow nanotriangles(Au–Ag–GOx HTNs)are designed,and they trigger an near-infrared(NIR)-II-driven plasmon-enhanced cascade catalytic reaction through regulating tumor microenvironment(TME)for highly efficient tumor therapy.Firstly,GOx can effectively trigger the generation of gluconic acid(H+)and hydrogen peroxide(H2O2),thus depleting nutrients in the tumor cells as well as modifying TME to provide conditions for subsequent peroxidase(POD)-like activity.Secondly,NIR-II induced surface plasmon resonance can induce hot electrons to enhance the catalytic activity of Au–Ag–GOx HTNs,eventually boosting the generation of hydroxyl radicals(•OH).Interestingly,the generated H2O2 and H+can simultaneously induce the degradation of Ag nanoprisms to break the intact triangle nanostructure,thus promoting the excretion of Au–Ag–GOx HTNs to avoid the potential risks of drug metabolism.Overall,the NIR-II driven plasmon-enhanced catalytic mechanism of this bio-breakable nanozyme provides a promising approach for the development of nanozymes in tumor therapy.展开更多
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals(UCNCs)have recently become an attractive nonlinear fluorescence material for use in bioimaging because of their tunable spectral characteristics and exceptional photostabilit...Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals(UCNCs)have recently become an attractive nonlinear fluorescence material for use in bioimaging because of their tunable spectral characteristics and exceptional photostability.Plasmonic materials are often introduced into the vicinity of UCNCs to increase their emission intensity by means of enlarging the absorption cross-section and accelerating the radiative decay rate.Moreover,plasmonic nanostructures(e.g.,gold nanorods,GNRs)can also influence the polarization state of the UC fluorescence—an effect that is of fundamental importance for fluorescence polarization-based imaging methods yet has not been discussed previously.To study this effect,we synthesized GNR@SiO_(2)@CaF2:Yb^(3+),Er^(3+)hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures with precise control over the thickness of the SiO_(2) shell.We evaluated the shell thicknessdependent plasmonic enhancement of the emission intensity in ensemble and studied the plasmonic modulation of the emission polarization at the single-particle level.The hybrid plasmonic UC nanostructures with an optimal shell thickness exhibit an improved bioimaging performance compared with bare UCNCs,and we observed a polarized nature of the light at both UC emission bands,which stems from the relationship between the excitation polarization and GNR orientation.We used electrodynamic simulations combined with Förster resonance energy transfer theory to fully explain the observed effect.Our results provide extensive insights into how the coherent interaction between the emission dipoles of UCNCs and the plasmonic dipoles of the GNR determines the emission polarization state in various situations and thus open the way to the accurate control of the UC emission anisotropy for a wide range of bioimaging and biosensing applications.展开更多
Coupling efficiency between the localized surface plasmons(LSPs) of metal nanoparticles(NPs) and incident light dominates the sensitivities of plasmon-based sensing spectroscopies and imaging techniques, e.g., surface...Coupling efficiency between the localized surface plasmons(LSPs) of metal nanoparticles(NPs) and incident light dominates the sensitivities of plasmon-based sensing spectroscopies and imaging techniques, e.g., surfaceenhanced Raman scattering(SERS) spectroscopy. Many endogenous features of metal NPs(e.g., size, shape,aggregation form, etc.) that have strong impacts on their LSPs have been discussed in detail in previous studies.Here, the polarization-tuned electromagnetic(EM) field that facilitates the LSP coupling is fully discussed.Numerical analyses on waveguide-based evanescent fields(WEFs) coupled with the LSPs of dispersed silver nanospheres and silver nano-hemispheres are presented and the applicability of the WEF-LSPs to plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy is discussed. Compared with LSPs under direct light excitation that only provide 3–4 times enhancement of the incidence field, the WEF-LSPs can amplify the electric field intensity about 30–90 times(equaling the enhancement factor of 10~6–10~8 in SERS intensity), which is comparable to the EM amplification of the SERS"hot spot" effect. Importantly, the strongest region of EM enhancement around silver nanospheres can be modulated from the gap region to the side surface simply by switching the incident polarization from TM to TE, which widely extends its sensing applications in surface analysis of monolayer of molecule and macromolecule detections. This technique provides us a unique way to achieve remarkable signal gains in many plasmon-enhanced spectroscopic systems in which LSPs are involved.展开更多
Perovskite solar cells(PSCs)are becoming a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic cells due to their attractive power conversion efficiency(PCE).Plasmonic enhancement is regarded as an optical tuning app...Perovskite solar cells(PSCs)are becoming a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic cells due to their attractive power conversion efficiency(PCE).Plasmonic enhancement is regarded as an optical tuning approach for further improving the PCE of single-junction PSCs toward Shockley-Queisser limit.Herein,we introduce molecularly isolated gold nanorods(Au NRs),bearing relatively stronger scattering ability and localized surface plasmonic resonance(LSPR)effect,in the rear side of perovskites in PSCs,for promoting light harvesting and for electrical enhancement.Owing to the larger refractive index and better matched energy level alignment,the 4-mercaptobenzoic acid molecules coated on Au NRs prove to play important dual roles:isolating the metallic Au NRs from contacting with perovskite,and facilitating more efficient charge separation and transport across the interface under the synergetic LSPR effect of Au NRs.Our work highlights the capability of the plasmonic approach by nanorods and by molecular isolation,extending nanoparticle-based plasmonic approaches,toward highly efficient plasmon-enhanced PSCs.展开更多
High-throughput small-molecule assays play essential roles in biomedical diagnosis,drug discovery,environmental analysis,and physiological function research.Nanoplasmonics holds a great potential for the label-free de...High-throughput small-molecule assays play essential roles in biomedical diagnosis,drug discovery,environmental analysis,and physiological function research.Nanoplasmonics holds a great potential for the label-free detection of small molecules at extremely low concentrations.Here,we report the development of nanoplasmonic paper(NP-paper)for the rapid separation and ultrasensitive detection of mixed small molecules.NP-paper employs nanogap-rich silver nanoislands on cellulose fibers,which were simply fabricated at the wafer level by using low-temperature solid-state dewetting of a thin silver film.The nanoplasmonic detection allows for the scalable quantification and identification of small molecules over broad concentration ranges.Moreover,the combination of chromatographic separation and nanoplasmonic detection allows both the highly sensitive fluorescence detection of mixed small molecules at the attogram level and the label-free detection at the sub-nanogram level based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering.This novel material provides a new diagnostic platform for the high-throughput,low-cost,and label-free screening of mixed small molecules as an alternative to conventional paper chromatography.展开更多
便携式拉曼光谱仪在现场快速分析中往往由于现场样品比较复杂,需要处理后才能采用光谱仪进行测定,因此一定程度上限制它的使用。常规实验室前处理虽然行之有效,但是过程繁琐费时,不适合现场使用。本课题组开发了一种便携式快速PERS前处...便携式拉曼光谱仪在现场快速分析中往往由于现场样品比较复杂,需要处理后才能采用光谱仪进行测定,因此一定程度上限制它的使用。常规实验室前处理虽然行之有效,但是过程繁琐费时,不适合现场使用。本课题组开发了一种便携式快速PERS前处理仪器,具有便携、功耗低、操作简便,提取时间短以及重复性好等特点,能满足现场快速检测的前处理需求。该仪器由超声波提取单元、加热抽气挥发单元、尾气净化与吸收单元以及控制系统四个功能模块组成,并且设有LED控制面板和报警装置。整个工作流程主要包括超声提取、液液萃取和溶剂加热抽气挥发三个环节。以三种实际样品(辣椒粉、辣椒油、豆瓣酱)中的违禁添加剂罗丹明B检测为例,结果表明:与常规实验室前处理方法相比,两种前处理方法对于PERS谱图影响不大,但是检测时间缩短一半。另外,重复性实验检测结果的相对标准偏差(relative standard deviation,RSD)小于±5%。展开更多
By using a microscopic quantum model, we study theoretically different roles of nanocavity plasmons in scanning tunneling microscope(STM) induced light emission upon selective initial excitation of molecules or plasmo...By using a microscopic quantum model, we study theoretically different roles of nanocavity plasmons in scanning tunneling microscope(STM) induced light emission upon selective initial excitation of molecules or plasmons. The time evolution and spectroscopic properties of the emission from the coupled plasmon-molecule system in each case are studied using time-dependent quantum mater equations. When the STM tip is placed on the molecule to ensure direct carrier injection induced molecular excitation, the major role of the plasmons is to enhance the molecular emission via increasing its radiative decay rate, resulting in sharp molecule-specific emission peaks. On the other hand, when the STM tip is located in close proximity to the edge of the molecule but without direct carrier injection into the molecule, the role of the plasmon-molecule coupling is to cause destructive interferences between the two quantum objects, leading to the occurrence of Fano dips around the energy of the molecular exciton in the plasmonic emission spectra.展开更多
A facile and rapid approach for detecting low concentration of iron ion(Fe3+) with improved sensitivity was developed on the basis of plasmon enhanced fluorescence and subsequently amplified fluorescence quenching.Au1...A facile and rapid approach for detecting low concentration of iron ion(Fe3+) with improved sensitivity was developed on the basis of plasmon enhanced fluorescence and subsequently amplified fluorescence quenching.Au1Ag4@Si O2 nanoparticles were synthesized and dispersed into fluorescein isothiocyanate(FITC) solution. The fluorescence of the FITC solution was improved due to plasmon enhanced fluorescence. However, efficient fluorescence quenching of the FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution was subsequently achieved when Fe3+, with a concentration ranging from17 n M to 3.4 l M, was added into the FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution, whereas almost no fluorescence quenching was observed for pure FITC solution under the same condition. FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution shows a better sensitivity for detecting low concentration of Fe3+compared to pure FITC solution. The quantized limit of detection toward Fe3+was improved from 4.6 l M for pure FITC solution to 20 n M for FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.T2222002,21973079,22032004,92161118,12174324,21991130,and 21905238)the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(grant no.2021YFA1201502)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(grant no.2021J06008).
文摘Plasmonic optical manipulation has emerged as an affordable alternative to manipulate single chemical and biological molecules in nanoscience.Although the theoretical models of sub-5 nm single-molecule trapping have been considered promising,the experimental strategies remain a challenge due to the Brownian motions and weak optical gradient forces with significantly reduced molecular polarizability.Herein,we address direct trapping and in situ sensing of single molecules with unprecedented size,down to∼5Åin solution,by employing an adjustable plasmonic optical nanogap and single-molecule conductance measurement.The theoretical simulations demonstrate that local fields with a high enhancement factor,over 103,were generated at such small nanogaps,resulting in optical forces as large as several piconewtons to suppress the Brownian motion and trap a molecule of length sub-1 nm.This work demonstrates a strategy for directly manipulating the small molecule units,promising a vast multitude of applications in chemical,biological,and materials sciences at the single-molecule level.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21321062,21373172)
文摘Nanoscale noble metals can exhibit excellent photochemical and photophysical properties, due to surface plasmon resonance(SPR) from specifically collective electronic excitations on these metal surfaces. The SPR effect triggers many new surface processes, including radiation and radiationless relaxations. As for the radiation process, the SPR effect causes the significant focus of light and enormous enhancement of the local surface optical electric field, as observed in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy(SERS) with very high detection sensitivity(to the single-molecule level). SERS is used to identify surface species and characterize molecular structures and chemical reactions. For the radiationless process, the SPR effect can generate hot carriers, such as hot electrons and hot holes, which can induce and enhance surface chemical reactions. Here, we review our recent work and related literature on surface catalytic-coupling reactions of aromatic amines and aromatic nitro compounds on nanostructured noble metal surfaces. Such reactions are a type of novel surface plasmon-enhanced chemical reaction. They could be simultaneously characterized by SERS when the SERS signals are assigned. By combining the density functional theory(DFT) calculations and SERS experimental spectra, our results indicate the possible pathways of the surface plasmonenhanced photochemical reactions on nanostructures of noble metals. To construct a stable and sustainable system in the conversion process of the light energy to the chemical energy on nanoscale metal surfaces, it is necessary to simultaneously consider the hot electrons and the hot holes as a whole chemical reaction system.
基金This work was supported by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by Tianjin(No.0701320001)major special project of Tianjin(No.0402080005).
文摘Emerging nanozymes with natural enzyme-mimicking catalytic activities have inspired extensive research interests due to their high stability,low cost,and simple preparation,especially in the field of catalytic tumor therapy.Here,bio-breakable nanozymes based on glucose-oxidase(GOx)-loaded biomimetic Au–Ag hollow nanotriangles(Au–Ag–GOx HTNs)are designed,and they trigger an near-infrared(NIR)-II-driven plasmon-enhanced cascade catalytic reaction through regulating tumor microenvironment(TME)for highly efficient tumor therapy.Firstly,GOx can effectively trigger the generation of gluconic acid(H+)and hydrogen peroxide(H2O2),thus depleting nutrients in the tumor cells as well as modifying TME to provide conditions for subsequent peroxidase(POD)-like activity.Secondly,NIR-II induced surface plasmon resonance can induce hot electrons to enhance the catalytic activity of Au–Ag–GOx HTNs,eventually boosting the generation of hydroxyl radicals(•OH).Interestingly,the generated H2O2 and H+can simultaneously induce the degradation of Ag nanoprisms to break the intact triangle nanostructure,thus promoting the excretion of Au–Ag–GOx HTNs to avoid the potential risks of drug metabolism.Overall,the NIR-II driven plasmon-enhanced catalytic mechanism of this bio-breakable nanozyme provides a promising approach for the development of nanozymes in tumor therapy.
基金support by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council(GRF Grant No.15301414)the support by the Ministry of Education,Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under project CEITEC 2020(LQ1601)+2 种基金the Hong Kong Polytechnic Universitythe financial support by the NSFC(Nos.U1305244,21325104,11304314)the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams.
文摘Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals(UCNCs)have recently become an attractive nonlinear fluorescence material for use in bioimaging because of their tunable spectral characteristics and exceptional photostability.Plasmonic materials are often introduced into the vicinity of UCNCs to increase their emission intensity by means of enlarging the absorption cross-section and accelerating the radiative decay rate.Moreover,plasmonic nanostructures(e.g.,gold nanorods,GNRs)can also influence the polarization state of the UC fluorescence—an effect that is of fundamental importance for fluorescence polarization-based imaging methods yet has not been discussed previously.To study this effect,we synthesized GNR@SiO_(2)@CaF2:Yb^(3+),Er^(3+)hybrid core–shell–satellite nanostructures with precise control over the thickness of the SiO_(2) shell.We evaluated the shell thicknessdependent plasmonic enhancement of the emission intensity in ensemble and studied the plasmonic modulation of the emission polarization at the single-particle level.The hybrid plasmonic UC nanostructures with an optimal shell thickness exhibit an improved bioimaging performance compared with bare UCNCs,and we observed a polarized nature of the light at both UC emission bands,which stems from the relationship between the excitation polarization and GNR orientation.We used electrodynamic simulations combined with Förster resonance energy transfer theory to fully explain the observed effect.Our results provide extensive insights into how the coherent interaction between the emission dipoles of UCNCs and the plasmonic dipoles of the GNR determines the emission polarization state in various situations and thus open the way to the accurate control of the UC emission anisotropy for a wide range of bioimaging and biosensing applications.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(21373096,21573087,21573092,91441105)National Instrumentation Program(NIP)of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(MOST)(2011YQ03012408)Science and Technology Development Program Funded Projects of Jilin Province
文摘Coupling efficiency between the localized surface plasmons(LSPs) of metal nanoparticles(NPs) and incident light dominates the sensitivities of plasmon-based sensing spectroscopies and imaging techniques, e.g., surfaceenhanced Raman scattering(SERS) spectroscopy. Many endogenous features of metal NPs(e.g., size, shape,aggregation form, etc.) that have strong impacts on their LSPs have been discussed in detail in previous studies.Here, the polarization-tuned electromagnetic(EM) field that facilitates the LSP coupling is fully discussed.Numerical analyses on waveguide-based evanescent fields(WEFs) coupled with the LSPs of dispersed silver nanospheres and silver nano-hemispheres are presented and the applicability of the WEF-LSPs to plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy is discussed. Compared with LSPs under direct light excitation that only provide 3–4 times enhancement of the incidence field, the WEF-LSPs can amplify the electric field intensity about 30–90 times(equaling the enhancement factor of 10~6–10~8 in SERS intensity), which is comparable to the EM amplification of the SERS"hot spot" effect. Importantly, the strongest region of EM enhancement around silver nanospheres can be modulated from the gap region to the side surface simply by switching the incident polarization from TM to TE, which widely extends its sensing applications in surface analysis of monolayer of molecule and macromolecule detections. This technique provides us a unique way to achieve remarkable signal gains in many plasmon-enhanced spectroscopic systems in which LSPs are involved.
基金supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2016YFA0200703)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21931009)。
文摘Perovskite solar cells(PSCs)are becoming a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic cells due to their attractive power conversion efficiency(PCE).Plasmonic enhancement is regarded as an optical tuning approach for further improving the PCE of single-junction PSCs toward Shockley-Queisser limit.Herein,we introduce molecularly isolated gold nanorods(Au NRs),bearing relatively stronger scattering ability and localized surface plasmonic resonance(LSPR)effect,in the rear side of perovskites in PSCs,for promoting light harvesting and for electrical enhancement.Owing to the larger refractive index and better matched energy level alignment,the 4-mercaptobenzoic acid molecules coated on Au NRs prove to play important dual roles:isolating the metallic Au NRs from contacting with perovskite,and facilitating more efficient charge separation and transport across the interface under the synergetic LSPR effect of Au NRs.Our work highlights the capability of the plasmonic approach by nanorods and by molecular isolation,extending nanoparticle-based plasmonic approaches,toward highly efficient plasmon-enhanced PSCs.
基金supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korea government(MEST)(2014022751,2014039957,2011-0031866)supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute(KHIDI),funded by the Ministry of Health&Welfare,Republic of Korea(grant number:HI13C2181).
文摘High-throughput small-molecule assays play essential roles in biomedical diagnosis,drug discovery,environmental analysis,and physiological function research.Nanoplasmonics holds a great potential for the label-free detection of small molecules at extremely low concentrations.Here,we report the development of nanoplasmonic paper(NP-paper)for the rapid separation and ultrasensitive detection of mixed small molecules.NP-paper employs nanogap-rich silver nanoislands on cellulose fibers,which were simply fabricated at the wafer level by using low-temperature solid-state dewetting of a thin silver film.The nanoplasmonic detection allows for the scalable quantification and identification of small molecules over broad concentration ranges.Moreover,the combination of chromatographic separation and nanoplasmonic detection allows both the highly sensitive fluorescence detection of mixed small molecules at the attogram level and the label-free detection at the sub-nanogram level based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering.This novel material provides a new diagnostic platform for the high-throughput,low-cost,and label-free screening of mixed small molecules as an alternative to conventional paper chromatography.
文摘便携式拉曼光谱仪在现场快速分析中往往由于现场样品比较复杂,需要处理后才能采用光谱仪进行测定,因此一定程度上限制它的使用。常规实验室前处理虽然行之有效,但是过程繁琐费时,不适合现场使用。本课题组开发了一种便携式快速PERS前处理仪器,具有便携、功耗低、操作简便,提取时间短以及重复性好等特点,能满足现场快速检测的前处理需求。该仪器由超声波提取单元、加热抽气挥发单元、尾气净化与吸收单元以及控制系统四个功能模块组成,并且设有LED控制面板和报警装置。整个工作流程主要包括超声提取、液液萃取和溶剂加热抽气挥发三个环节。以三种实际样品(辣椒粉、辣椒油、豆瓣酱)中的违禁添加剂罗丹明B检测为例,结果表明:与常规实验室前处理方法相比,两种前处理方法对于PERS谱图影响不大,但是检测时间缩短一半。另外,重复性实验检测结果的相对标准偏差(relative standard deviation,RSD)小于±5%。
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the National Basic Re-search Program of China,Chinese Academy of Sci-ences,Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Tech-nologies,and Basic Research Program of Shenzhen(JCYJ20150401145529035).
文摘By using a microscopic quantum model, we study theoretically different roles of nanocavity plasmons in scanning tunneling microscope(STM) induced light emission upon selective initial excitation of molecules or plasmons. The time evolution and spectroscopic properties of the emission from the coupled plasmon-molecule system in each case are studied using time-dependent quantum mater equations. When the STM tip is placed on the molecule to ensure direct carrier injection induced molecular excitation, the major role of the plasmons is to enhance the molecular emission via increasing its radiative decay rate, resulting in sharp molecule-specific emission peaks. On the other hand, when the STM tip is located in close proximity to the edge of the molecule but without direct carrier injection into the molecule, the role of the plasmon-molecule coupling is to cause destructive interferences between the two quantum objects, leading to the occurrence of Fano dips around the energy of the molecular exciton in the plasmonic emission spectra.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51003069)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (10KJB430014)A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
文摘A facile and rapid approach for detecting low concentration of iron ion(Fe3+) with improved sensitivity was developed on the basis of plasmon enhanced fluorescence and subsequently amplified fluorescence quenching.Au1Ag4@Si O2 nanoparticles were synthesized and dispersed into fluorescein isothiocyanate(FITC) solution. The fluorescence of the FITC solution was improved due to plasmon enhanced fluorescence. However, efficient fluorescence quenching of the FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution was subsequently achieved when Fe3+, with a concentration ranging from17 n M to 3.4 l M, was added into the FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution, whereas almost no fluorescence quenching was observed for pure FITC solution under the same condition. FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution shows a better sensitivity for detecting low concentration of Fe3+compared to pure FITC solution. The quantized limit of detection toward Fe3+was improved from 4.6 l M for pure FITC solution to 20 n M for FITC/Au1Ag4@Si O2 solution.
