关于量子点光发光的pH依赖性灭,通过氧化还原活性多巴胺
Xin Ji1, Goutam Palui, Tommaso Avellini
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|March 8, 2012
概括
量子点 (QD) 和多巴胺之间的电荷转移相互作用导致pH依赖的光火. 氧气对多巴胺至关重要.
科学领域:
- 纳米材料科学 科学 纳米材料科学
- 生物物理化学 生物物理化学
- 摄影化学的使用.
背景情况:
- 量子点 (QD) 是具有可调节光学特性的发光纳米材料.
- 多巴胺是一种具有显著生物作用的氧化还原活性神经递质.
- 了解QD-生物分子相互作用对于开发生物传感器和成像剂至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究发光量子点 (QD) 和多巴胺之间的电荷转移相互作用.
- 阐明pH和氧气在调节这些相互作用和QD光中的作用.
- 探索QD-多巴胺合物的潜力,用于传感应用.
主要方法:
- 合成与水相容的ZnS涂层的CdSe QDs,用多巴胺-异硫酸功能化.
- 稳态和时间分辨率的光光谱测量光发光 (PL) 火.
- 暂时吸收光谱检测激子动态和电荷载体放松.
- 在一系列pH值的氧化和脱氧缓冲器中进行的实验.
主要成果:
- 在所有QD-多巴胺组件中观察到明显的pH取决于光发光的灭.
- 火效率随着多巴胺密度的增加和性缓冲条件下增加.
- 在缺氧的缓冲区中消除了PL火,突出显示了氧在多巴胺氧化还原活性中的作用.
- 确定了QDs和减少的 (catechol) 和氧化的 (quinone) 多巴胺形式之间的电荷转移相互作用.
- 改变的电子和孔放松率通过短暂吸收光谱测量.
结论:
- QD和多巴胺之间的电荷转移依赖于pH,受氧催化多巴胺氧化的影响.
- 多巴胺的甲基醇和子形式之间的相互作用决定了观察到的PL火.
- 这些发现提供了对QD-redox活性分子相互作用及其因环境因素的调制的见解.
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