Positive Shifts of the Reduction Potentials of C_(60) by Substitution of Cyanogens

The electrochemical properties of a new derivative of C60 were investigated by cyclic voltammetry. It was found that the derivative was reduced at a more positive potential than C60,reflecting its significance to accept electron easily. Its NIR characteristic absorption bands ofmonoanion and dianion were also obtained.

NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF DEEP TISSUE TEMPERATURE CHANGES CAUSED BY APOPTOSIS DURING BREAST CANCER NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY:A CASE STUDY

Treatment-induced apoptosis of cancer cells is one goal of cancer therapy.Interestingly,more heat is generated by mitochondria during apoptosis,especially the uncoupled apoptotic state,^(1,2) compared to the resting state.In this case study,we explore these thermal effects by longitudinally measuring temperature variations in a breast lesion of a pathological complete responder during neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC).Diffuse Optical Spectroscopic Imaging(DOSI)was employed to derive absolute deep tissue temperature using subtle spectral features of the water peak at 975 nm.^(3)A significant temperature increase was observed in time windows during the anthracycline and cyclophosphamide(AC)regimen but not in the paclitaxel and bevacizumab regimen.Hemoglobin concentration changes generally did not follow temperature,suggesting the measured temperature increases were likely due to mitochondrial uncoupling rather than a direct vascular effect.A simultaneous increase of tissue oxygen saturation with temperature was observed,suggesting that oxidative stress also contributes to apoptosis.Although preliminary,this study indicates longitudinal DOSI tissue temperature monitoring provides information that can improve our understanding of the mechanisms of tissue response during NAC.

Supra-(carbon nanodots) with a strong visible to near-infrared absorption band and efficient photothermal conversion

A novel concept and approach to engineering carbon nanodots(CNDs)were explored to overcome the limited light absorption of CNDs in low-energy spectral regions.In this work,we constructed a novel type of supra-CND by the assembly of surface charge-confined CNDs through possible electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding.The resulting supra-CNDs are the first to feature a strong,well-defined absorption band in the visible to near-infrared(NIR)range and to exhibit effective NIR photothermal conversion performance with high photothermal conversion efficiency in excess of 50%.

Near-Infrared Absorption Imaging and Processing Technologies Based on Gold Nanorods

Noble metal nanoparticles with localized surface plasmon resonance （LSPR） properties are widely used as optical sensors in biochemical detection and medical diagnosis. In this paper, we propose an effective determination method to measure the LSPR absorption intensity of gold nanorods （GNRs）. A near-infrared （NIR） imaging system is established, and an NIR absorption image of the multiple samples of the colloidal GNRs is captured. Then, the LSPR absorption intensities of these samples are obtained by calculating the average grayscale of the target areas based on the NIR image processing technology. By using this method, the LSPR absorption intensities of the multiple samples are determined all at once, and their accuracy is as high as that obtained by using spectrophotometry. These results suggest that this method is an efficient multi-channel determination technique with high-throughput sensing applications.

Engineering the inter-island plasmonic coupling in homometallic Au-Au_(n)core-satellite structures

We show that through strong ligand mediated interfacial energy control between Au seeds and the deposited Au,the non-wetting growth of Au on Au seeds led to the formation homometallic core-satellite nanostructures.To modulate the intraparticle plasmonic coupling between the core and the satellites,the number and size of the Au satellites,and their inter-island distances were continuously tuned by varying the growth kinetics.As a result of the precise structural control,the plasmonic absorptions of the core-satellite nanostructures were tuned from visible to near-infrared(NIR)spectral range,and the extent of spectral modulation(500-1300 nm)is among the best of the literature methods.This synthetic advance enriches the toolbox for nanosynthesis and points to a new direction in the exploration of sophisticated functional designs.

Microwave synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of manganese oxalate nanocrystals

The microwave synthesis of MnC204.2H2O nanoparticles was performed through the thermal double decomposition of oxalic acid dihydrate （C2H204.2H20） and Mn（OAc）2.4H2O solutions using a CATA-2R microwave reactor. Structural characterization was performed using X-ray diffraction （XRD）, particle size and shape were analyzed using transmission electron microscopy （TEM）. The chemical in the structures was investigated using electron paramagnetic resonance （EPR） as well as optical absorption spectra and near-infrared （NIR） spectroscopies. The nanocrystals produced with this method were pure and had a distorted rhombic octahedral structure.Manganese oxalate