Photothermal therapy(PTT)is a cutting-edge cancer treatment that can kill cancer cells in hypoxic environments without relying on oxygen.Seeking of the ideal photothermal agents with a high absorption coefficient in t...Photothermal therapy(PTT)is a cutting-edge cancer treatment that can kill cancer cells in hypoxic environments without relying on oxygen.Seeking of the ideal photothermal agents with a high absorption coefficient in the near-infrared region,and a high excellent photothermal conversion efficiency is of great significance.Sulfone-Rhodanmine dye has showed an impressive absorption wavelength over 700 nm,but suffered from a stability issue.In this study,we synthesized five sulfone rhodamines and investigated the substitution effects on stability.SO_(2)R2 showed high stability and strong absorbance at 714 nm with an excellent photothermal conversion efficiency of 53.06%,making it suitable for accurate photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy in vivo.展开更多
FTIR absorption spectra indicate that H^+can easily enter the crystal structure and form OH^-centers in Er:Yb:YCOB and O-H bonds prefer to lie in the a-c plane.Within our current studied concentration level,crystal sa...FTIR absorption spectra indicate that H^+can easily enter the crystal structure and form OH^-centers in Er:Yb:YCOB and O-H bonds prefer to lie in the a-c plane.Within our current studied concentration level,crystal samples with higher OH-abso rption coefficie nts demonstrate stro nger fluo rescence intensity and longer fluorescence lifetime at 1535 nm.As the stretching vibration energy of OH-group approximately corresponds to the energy gap between the 4 I11/2 and 4 I13/2 levels of Er^3+,and thus,OH^-ions can shorten the fluorescence lifetime of Er^3+-4I11/2 level by the phonon-assisted cross-relaxation process between the Er^3+and OH-ions.Our curre nt results confirm that a certain conte nt of OH ions can enhance the ene rgy transfer process from Yb^3+to Er^3+and subsequently promote fluorescence output in 1.5-1.6μm.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21762045,21911540466)Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.ZR2019YQ12)+1 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.219M652306)Taishan Scholar Project(No.tsqn201812049)for supporting this work。
文摘Photothermal therapy(PTT)is a cutting-edge cancer treatment that can kill cancer cells in hypoxic environments without relying on oxygen.Seeking of the ideal photothermal agents with a high absorption coefficient in the near-infrared region,and a high excellent photothermal conversion efficiency is of great significance.Sulfone-Rhodanmine dye has showed an impressive absorption wavelength over 700 nm,but suffered from a stability issue.In this study,we synthesized five sulfone rhodamines and investigated the substitution effects on stability.SO_(2)R2 showed high stability and strong absorbance at 714 nm with an excellent photothermal conversion efficiency of 53.06%,making it suitable for accurate photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy in vivo.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11204148,11374170)Major Basic Research Projects of Shandong Natural Science Foundation(ZR2018ZB0650)+4 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2015M580573)the Applied Basic Research Programs for Youths of Qingdao(15-9-1-52-JCH)Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Provincethe Qingdao Postdoctoral Application Research Project(2015127)the Open Projects of State Key Laboratory of Rare-earth Resource Utilization(RERU2016015)
文摘FTIR absorption spectra indicate that H^+can easily enter the crystal structure and form OH^-centers in Er:Yb:YCOB and O-H bonds prefer to lie in the a-c plane.Within our current studied concentration level,crystal samples with higher OH-abso rption coefficie nts demonstrate stro nger fluo rescence intensity and longer fluorescence lifetime at 1535 nm.As the stretching vibration energy of OH-group approximately corresponds to the energy gap between the 4 I11/2 and 4 I13/2 levels of Er^3+,and thus,OH^-ions can shorten the fluorescence lifetime of Er^3+-4I11/2 level by the phonon-assisted cross-relaxation process between the Er^3+and OH-ions.Our curre nt results confirm that a certain conte nt of OH ions can enhance the ene rgy transfer process from Yb^3+to Er^3+and subsequently promote fluorescence output in 1.5-1.6μm.
