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Quenching (fluorescence)

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Fluorometer system, fluorescene analysis method, and use thereof

Christoph Merten, Jatin Panwar

The invention relates to a fluorometer system for analyzing fluid samples comprising a plurality of particles capable of being labeled with at least two fluorescent labels, in particular two distinct fluorophores. The invention also relates to a fluorescen ...

2024

DNA-Liposome Hybrid Carriers for Triggered Cargo Release

Diana Kornelia Morzy

The design of simple and versatile synthetic routes to accomplish triggered-release properties in carriers is of particular interest for drug delivery purposes. In this context, the programmability and adaptability of DNA nanoarchitectures in combination w ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Controlling motion at the nanoscale with light

Mintae Chung

Optical manipulation at the micro- nano-scale is a fascinating topic due to its inherent non-invasive properties and multifaceted applications in various fields such as biology, sensing, micro-fluidics, and micro- nano-robotics. This thesis involves intens ...

EPFL2022

Block Copolymer Stabilized Liquid Nanodroplets Facilitate Efficient Triplet Fusion-Based Photon Upconversion in Solid Polymer Matrices

Felipe Andres Saenz Padilla

Sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion is a photo-physical process that affords anti-Stokes-shifted emission after annihilation of two metastable triplet excitons of an emitter dye and the formation of a fluorescent singlet state ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

A hybrid erbium(III)-bacteriochlorin near-infrared probe for multiplexed biomedical imaging

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Fan Zhang

Spectrally distinct fluorophores are desired for multiplexed bioimaging. In particular, monitoring biological processes in living mammals needs fluorophores that operate in the 'tissue-transparent' near-infrared (NIR) window, that is, between 700 and 1,700 ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Direct Observation of Aggregation-Induced Emission Mechanism

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Kun-Han Lin

The mechanism of aggregation-induced emission, which overcomes the common aggregation-caused quenching problem in organic optoelectronics, is revealed by monitoring the real time structural evolution and dynamics of electronic excited state with frequency ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Promising anti-cancer potency of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[d]thiazole-based Schiff-bases

Kurt Schenk, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani

Four new Schiff-bases have been synthesized from the 1:2 M condensation of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazole-2,6-diamine with 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL3), 5-Bromo-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (SL2), 2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde (SL3) and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehy ...

ELSEVIER2020

Simplified Instrument Calibration forWide-FieldFluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Measured by the Sensitized Emission Method

Audrey Menaesse

Forster (or fluorescence) resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a quantifiable energy transfer in which a donor fluorophore nonradiatively transfers its excitation energy to an acceptor fluorophore. A change in FRET efficiency indicates a change of proximity ...

2021

Single-Photon, Time-Gated, Phasor-Based Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging through Highly Scattering Medium

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for biochemical and cellular investigations, including in vivo applications. Fluorescence lifetime is an intrinsic characteristic of any fluorescent dye which, to a large ext ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Mechanisms of fluorescence quenching in prototypical aggregation-induced emission systems: excited state dynamics with TD-DFTB

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Kun-Han Lin, Daniel Hollas

A recent implementation of time-dependent tight-binding density functional theory is employed in excited state molecular dynamics for the investigation of the fluorescence quenching mechanism in 3 prototypical aggregation-induced emission systems. An asses ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

A multi-scale time-resolved study of photoactivated dynamics in 5-benzyl uracil, a model for DNA/protein interactions

Majed Chergui, Enrico Pomarico

We combine fluorescence up-conversion and time correlated single photon counting experiments to investigate the 5-benzyl uracil excited state dynamics in methanol from 100 fs up to several ns. This molecule has been proposed as a model for DNA/protein inte ...

2019

Electrically tunable quantum emitters in an ultrathin graphene-hexagonal boron nitride van der Waals heterostructure

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Shai Mangel, Alessio Scavuzzo

We explore the photoluminescence (PL) properties of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) quantum emitters embedded within atomically thin graphene/h-BN heterostructures fabricated by mechanical transfer. Stable light emission could be observed from h-BN emitters ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Interference of engineered nanomaterials in flow cytometry: A case study

Aurélie Walter

Nanotechnology is regarded as the enabling technology of the 21st century. However, only a relatively small number of nano-enabled medical and healthcare products finally made their way to the market. There are several reasons why such innovative approache ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Fluorescence Quenching in BODIPY Dyes: the Role of Intramolecular Interactions and Charge Transfer

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Laurent Alexis Clément Vannay

The fluorescence properties of the BODIPY dye and its two meso-substituted derivatives, tert-butyl- and phenyl-BODIPY, are rationalized. The non emissive behavior of the latter two are attributed to the energetically accessible low-lying conical intersecti ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Strongly Red-Shifted Photoluminescence Band Induced by Molecular Twisting in Cyanine (Cy3) Dye Films

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Cyanine dye molecules, used as monomers or in aggregate form, find interesting applications in optoelectronic devices. Among the various aggregate species incorporating organic dyes, centrosymmetric dimers are known as nonluminescent. They can act as excit ...

American Chemical Society2017

Nanopatterning of a Stimuli-Responsive Fluorescent Supramolecular Polymer by Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Jürgen Brugger

The miniaturization of nanometer-sized multicolor fluorescent features is of continuous significance for counterfeit security features, data storage, and sensors. Recent advances in engineering of stimuli-responsive supramolecular polymeric materials that ...

2017

Preclinical Evaluation of Photoacoustic Imaging as a Novel Noninvasive Approach to Detect an Orthopaedic Implant Infection

Riccardo Sinisi, Pavlo Khodakivskyi, Ghyslain Martial Alain Budin

Introduction: Diagnosing-prosthetic joint infection (PJI) poses significant challenges, and current modalities are fraught with low sensitivity and/or potential morbidity. Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a novel ultrasound-based modality with potential for ...

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins2017

Quantifying Electronic Phenomena in Organic Chromophores

Antonio Prlj

Challenging ground and excited state problems in the chemistry of common organic chromophores are investigated with state-of-the-art quantum chemical methods. We present a comprehensive excited state molecular dynamics analysis of (a) fundamental building ...

EPFL2017

Mediatorless, Reversible Optical Nanosensor Enabled through Enzymatic Pocket Doping

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Vitalijs Zubkovs, Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert, Nils Schürgers

This study presents a reversible, mediatorless, near-infrared glucose sensor based on glucose oxidase-wrapped SWCNTs. A combination of fluorescence, absorption, and Raman spectroscopy measurements suggest a fluorescence enhancement mechanism based on local ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Novel manufacturing methods for optical antennas : controlling light down to the single nanometer scale

Valentin Flauraud

The resonant excitation of free electrons in metallic nanostructures enables extreme near field intensities along with a deep sub-wavelength localization of the electromagnetic energy. This has been exploited to enhance light-matter interaction down to the ...

EPFL2017