Upconversion NaLuF4 nanoparticles were synthesized by the solvothermal method which could emit multicolor visible light under the excitation of 980 nm near-infrared (NIR) photons. These upconversion nanoparticles (UCN...Upconversion NaLuF4 nanoparticles were synthesized by the solvothermal method which could emit multicolor visible light under the excitation of 980 nm near-infrared (NIR) photons. These upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) with an acidic ligand could rapidly capture the basic rhodamine-B (RB) in plant cells to generate a close UCNPs@RB system. RB could efficiently absorb the green fluorescence from NaLuF4:18 mol.%Yb3+,2 mol.%Er3+ UCNPs and then emitted red light in the UCNPs@RB system by a robust luminescence resonance energy transfer (LRET) from UCNPs to RB. The detection limit of RB with these upconversion fluo-rescent nanoprobes could reach 0.25μg/cm3 in plant cell even under an ultra low excitation power source of 0.2 W/mm2. This LRET phenomenon was also extended to NaLuF4:18 mol.%Yb3+,0.5 mol.%Tm3+@Sodium fluorescein (SF) system. In addition, the differ-ential imaging could be achieved by successively incubating plant cells with fluorescent dyes and UCNPs. The fluorescent dyes ag-gregated in cell wall while UCNPs with surface modification distributed both in cell wall and cytoplasm, so that UCNPs@Dyes formed in cell walls which could emit multicolor light by LRET which was different from the emission in cytoplasm with only UCNPs.展开更多
Lanthanide-based upconversion core-shell NaGdF4 nanocrystals with strong upconversion luminescence and biocompatibility were synthesized by the solvothermal method.The multicolor upconversion emission of these NaGdF4 ...Lanthanide-based upconversion core-shell NaGdF4 nanocrystals with strong upconversion luminescence and biocompatibility were synthesized by the solvothermal method.The multicolor upconversion emission of these NaGdF4 nanoparticles could be easily obtained by controlling the core-shell compositions.These multicolor core-shell NaGdF4 upconversion nanocrystals could be employed as fluorescent probes for imaging the mouse hair,by which the porous and scalelike structure of the mouse hair were presented clearly.Meanwhile,it was directly shown by fluorescent signals that the mouse hair could resist the corrosion of the strong acid even when the concentration of hydrochloric acid was increased to 36.5%,but could not avoid the carbonization at high temperature of 400 oC.This procedure based on upconversion fluorescent nanoprobes opens a novel route for investigating the basic physical structure and chemical properties of biological tissue and organism.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21301058,61376076,61377024)the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department(14B060)Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(13JJ4048)
文摘Upconversion NaLuF4 nanoparticles were synthesized by the solvothermal method which could emit multicolor visible light under the excitation of 980 nm near-infrared (NIR) photons. These upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) with an acidic ligand could rapidly capture the basic rhodamine-B (RB) in plant cells to generate a close UCNPs@RB system. RB could efficiently absorb the green fluorescence from NaLuF4:18 mol.%Yb3+,2 mol.%Er3+ UCNPs and then emitted red light in the UCNPs@RB system by a robust luminescence resonance energy transfer (LRET) from UCNPs to RB. The detection limit of RB with these upconversion fluo-rescent nanoprobes could reach 0.25μg/cm3 in plant cell even under an ultra low excitation power source of 0.2 W/mm2. This LRET phenomenon was also extended to NaLuF4:18 mol.%Yb3+,0.5 mol.%Tm3+@Sodium fluorescein (SF) system. In addition, the differ-ential imaging could be achieved by successively incubating plant cells with fluorescent dyes and UCNPs. The fluorescent dyes ag-gregated in cell wall while UCNPs with surface modification distributed both in cell wall and cytoplasm, so that UCNPs@Dyes formed in cell walls which could emit multicolor light by LRET which was different from the emission in cytoplasm with only UCNPs.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21301058,61274026)Innovation Foundation of Hunan University of Science and Technology(S140036)
文摘Lanthanide-based upconversion core-shell NaGdF4 nanocrystals with strong upconversion luminescence and biocompatibility were synthesized by the solvothermal method.The multicolor upconversion emission of these NaGdF4 nanoparticles could be easily obtained by controlling the core-shell compositions.These multicolor core-shell NaGdF4 upconversion nanocrystals could be employed as fluorescent probes for imaging the mouse hair,by which the porous and scalelike structure of the mouse hair were presented clearly.Meanwhile,it was directly shown by fluorescent signals that the mouse hair could resist the corrosion of the strong acid even when the concentration of hydrochloric acid was increased to 36.5%,but could not avoid the carbonization at high temperature of 400 oC.This procedure based on upconversion fluorescent nanoprobes opens a novel route for investigating the basic physical structure and chemical properties of biological tissue and organism.
