Surface motif sensitivity of dual emissive gold nanoclusters for robust ratiometric intracellular imaging
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Synthesis of Near-Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters for Biological Applications
Published on: March 22, 2020
Xuefen Lou1, Fanfan Yu, Zheng Cao
1School of Food and Biological Engineering, Engineering Research Center of Bio-process, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230009, China. liuhonglin@mail.ustc.edu.cn yangln@mail.ustc.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Here, we report novel dual-emissive gold nanoclusters (d-Au NCs) that have two distinctive emissions (420 and 630 nm) under a single wavelength excitation. The two-stage formation mechanism evidences their sensitive response to valine and trivalent chromium ions (Cr3+) in completely different spectral ratiometric modes in living cells with high contrast to successfully avoid signal fluctuations.

