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Published on: June 9, 2023
Energy Transfer between Semiconducting Polymer Dots and Gold Nanoparticles in a Photoelectrochemical System: A Case
Xiao-Mei Shi1, Li-Ping Mei1, Qian Wang1
1State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Nanjing University , Nanjing 210023 , China.
Abstract:
We report herein the energy transfer (ET) between semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) and gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in a photoelectrochemical (PEC) system and its feasibility for cathodic bioanalysis application. Specifically, COOH-capped Pdots were first fabricated and then assembled onto the indium-tin oxide (ITO) surface, followed by the modification of single-strand (ss) DNA probe (pDNA). After the DNA hybridization with the Au NP-tethered complementary ssDNA (Au NP-tDNA), the Au NPs were brought into the close proximity of Pdots. Upon light stimulation, photoluminescence (PL) was annihilated, fluorescence was attenuated, and the photocurrent intensity was evidently decreased. This ET-based PEC DNA sensor exhibited a linear range from 1 fM to 10 pM with a detection limit of 0.97 fM at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3. The present work first exploited the ET between Pdots and Au NPs, and we believe this phenomenon will spark new interest in the study of various Pdots-based ET-influenced PEC systems and thus catalyze increasing studies for specific bioanalytical purposes.
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The Dot Product
Dot Product
In engineering, the dot product of any two vectors is the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them. It is denoted by a dot symbol between the two vectors.
Consider a vehicle pulling an object along the ground using a rope. If the rope makes an angle with the horizontal axis, the work done can be calculated using the dot product of the force applied and the object's displacement.
The dot...

