Photostable Copper Nanoclusters: Compatible Förster Resonance Energy-Transfer Assays and a Nanothermometer
| Autor: | Nirmal Kumar Das, Saptarshi Mukherjee, Uttam Anand, Subhadip Ghosh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Copper nanoclusters
Photoluminescence Fluorophore Chemistry Metal Nanoparticles chemistry.chemical_element Molecular Dynamics Simulation Photochemistry Copper Blue emission Nanoclusters Molecular dynamics chemistry.chemical_compound Förster resonance energy transfer Coumarins Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer General Materials Science Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6:1293-1298 |
| ISSN: | 1948-7185 |
| Popis: | To address the concern of material chemists over the issue of stability and photoluminescent (PL) characteristics of Cu nanoclusters (NCs), herein we present an efficient protocol discussing PL Cu NCs (Cu/HSA) having blue emission and high photostability. These PL NCs were illustrated as efficient probes for Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) with a compatible fluorophore (Coumarin 153). Our spectroscopic results were well complemented by our molecular docking calculations, which also favored our proposed mechanism for Cu NC formation. The beneficial aspect and uniqueness of these nontoxic Cu/HSA NCs highlights their temperature-dependent PL reversibility as well as the reversible FRET with Coumarin 153, which enables them to be used as a nanothermometer and a PL marker for sensitive biological samples. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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