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Reversible Photoswi...
Reversible Photoswitching of Spiropyran-Conjugated Semiconducting Polymer Dots
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- Chan, Yang-Hsiang (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Gallina, Maria Elena (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Zhang, Xuanjun (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Wu, I-Che (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Jin, Yuhui (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Sun, Wei (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Chiu, Daniel T. (author)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- 2012-10-22
- 2012
- English.
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In: Analytical Chemistry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0003-2700 .- 1520-6882. ; 84:21, s. 9431-9438
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- Semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) recently have emerged as a new class of ultrabright fluorescent probes with promising applications in biological detection and imaging. We developed photoswitchable Pdots by conjugating photochromic spiropyran molecules onto poly[9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl)-co-1,4-benzo-{2,1′-3}-thiadiazole)] (PFBT). The modulation of fluorescence was achieved by ultraviolet irradiation, which converted spiropyran into its visible-absorbing merocyanine form. The merocyanine efficiently quenched the fluorescence of PFBT via Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). We then reversed the quenching by subsequent irradiation with visible light to get back the fluorescence of PFBT. This FRET-based photomodulation of Pdot fluorescence could be repeated multiple times. We next conjugated biomolecules onto the surface of these photoswitchable Pdots and demonstrated their specific cellular and subcellular labeling to different types of cells without any noticeable nonspecific binding. We anticipate these photoswitchable and biocompatible Pdots will be useful in developing bioimaging techniques in the future.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences (hsv//eng)
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