金纳米棒组装体表面等离子体共振耦合效应的FDTD模拟

贵金属纳米结构的光学性质与其尺寸、形貌、介质环境等因素的相关性是基础研究领域的重要内容. 本文利用时域有限差分（FDTD）方法,计算了不同构型二聚体和多聚体的表面等离子体共振（SPR）特性. 研究了金纳米棒结构和组装方式对SPR耦合效应的影响,模拟结果与实验规律比较吻合. 金纳米棒二聚体的光吸收结果表明：对于肩并肩（S-S）的组装体,随着间隙的减小,金纳米棒的横向SPR（SPR_T）峰有较小的红移,而纵向SPR（SPR_L）峰显著蓝移. 对于端对端（E-E）的组装体,随着组装体间隙的减小,金纳米棒的SPR_T峰无明显移动,而SPR_L峰显著红移,并在近红外较长波段范围内出现新的共振峰,其强度随着间隙的减小而增强;结合弹簧振子模型和纳米颗粒在外电场作用下的极化,对组装体共振吸收峰的移动和新的耦合共振峰的出现提出了初步的解释.     

基于表面增强拉曼光谱的重金属离子检测

以对巯基苯甲酸为拉曼标记和自组装修饰分子, 在光亮金基底上修饰后作为检测基底, 在金纳米粒子表面修饰后获得具有表面增强拉曼光谱信号的标记金溶胶. 修饰的基底及纳米离子通过重金属离子与羧基端的配位而发生相互作用, 最终形成“金属基底-对巯基苯甲酸/重金属离子/对巯基苯甲酸-金属纳米颗粒”的三明治结构. 采用扫描电镜表征纳米粒子的组装及以表面增强拉曼光谱检测表面标记分子的信号, 以此实现重金属离子的检测. 以强螯合剂EDTA溶液淋洗三明治结构, 使重金属离子与金属基底以及纳米颗粒上的羧基的配位作用断裂, 获得可再次利用的修饰金基底.     

纳米金汞核-壳粒子的电化学制备及其光谱性质

在聚乙烯吡啶修饰导电玻璃电极表面进行了金纳米粒子的二维单层结构组装,通过电沉积方法在金粒子表面制备了纳米汞壳层.研究结果表明,汞壳层的形成导致了内部金粒子表面等离子体共振的谱峰红移和强度衰减.吸附于汞壳表面的结晶紫分子因可承受被金核增强的电磁场,而使其拉曼散射得到极大的增强.     

基于偏振光波导分光光谱技术原位研究纳米金-细胞色素c 自组装过程

时间分辨偏振光波导分光光谱技术是一种用于研究表面分子吸附动力学的强大工具. 利用该技术实时、原位监测纳米金与细胞色素c的静电自组装过程, 发现随着吸附层数的增加, 纳米金粒子吸附层产生的局域等离子体共振(LSPR)吸收峰发生了红移, 而且在横磁(TM)模式下的红移比横电(TE)模式下的红移更快; 细胞色素c在纳米金表面的吸附导致LSPR吸收峰的峰位和强度在TM模式下显著红移和升高, 相比之下, TE模式下的LSPR吸收峰无明显变化. 对实验数据的分析验证了纳米金在细胞色素c单分子层表面的吸附动力学行为遵循扩散控制模型, 细胞色素c在纳米金单粒子层表面的吸附动力学行为遵循Langmuir等温吸附模型, 进一步估算了细胞色素c在纳米金表面的吸附速率常数、脱附速率常数和吸附自由能.     

信号肽功能化二氧化硅纳米颗粒的线粒体靶向作用研究

以N-(p-Maleimidophenyl)isocyanate(PMPI)为交联剂, 将线粒体信号肽分子共价修饰到二氧化硅荧光纳米颗粒表面, 构建线粒体信号肽功能化二氧化硅荧光纳米颗粒. 采用荧光分光光度计、Zeta电位仪以及透射电子显微镜对修饰前后的二氧化硅纳米颗粒进行了表征. 结果表明, 信号肽可被成功修饰在纳米颗粒表面, 并且纳米颗粒粒径在信号肽分子修饰前后没有发生明显变化. 以分离纯化的细胞核作为对照, 采用流式细胞术考察了信号肽功能化二氧化硅荧光纳米颗粒与分离纯化后的线粒体的相互作用. 结果表明, 线粒体信号肽修饰到二氧化硅纳米颗粒表面后依然保持良好的生物活性, 能够介导二氧化硅纳米颗粒特异性识别及结合分离纯化的线粒体, 从而为线粒体监测及其功能调控研究提供了新的思路.     

聚多巴胺修饰金纳米花的可控制备及在光热治疗中的应用

采用无模板法制备了金纳米花, 其形状与粒径大小可以通过改变反应温度和还原剂抗坏血酸的用量来调控; 然后, 通过多巴胺的表面原位聚合反应制备了聚多巴胺修饰的金纳米花, 以提高其在近红外区的吸收能力及生物相容性. 采用透射电子显微镜(TEM)、 紫外-可见吸收光谱(UV-Vis)和纳米粒度/Zeta电位仪等对金纳米花和聚多巴胺修饰金纳米花的形态、 粒径和光学特性进行了表征; 通过傅里叶变换红外吸收光谱(FTIR)分析证明聚多巴胺修饰成功; X射线衍射(XRD)分析结果表明, 聚多巴胺修饰前后金纳米花的晶体结构未变; 最后, 采用噻唑蓝(MTT)法体外评价了聚多巴胺修饰金纳米花的细胞毒性. 研究结果表明, 反应温度越低, 金纳米花表面分支结构越丰富, 以0 ℃为最佳反应温度; 还原剂抗血酸的用量越高, 金纳米花粒径越小; 金纳米花粒径在60~100 nm范围内可调, 最大吸收波长为575~650 nm. 经聚多巴胺修饰后, 金纳米花的最大吸收波长发生了显著红移(>80 nm), 近红外区的吸收范围显著扩大. 通过调控多巴胺溶液浓度, 可将金纳米花表面聚多巴胺层的厚度控制在8~14 nm. 在808 nm激光辐照下, 聚多巴胺修饰金纳米花溶液可迅速升温至57 ℃. 此外, 细胞实验结果表明, 聚多巴胺修饰后金纳米花的细胞毒性更低. 用其对HeLa肿瘤细胞进行光热治疗后, 细胞存活率仅为10%. 因此, 聚多巴胺修饰金纳米花作为光热试剂在肿瘤治疗领域具有潜在的应用前景.     

水溶液中碳纳米管的表面增强拉曼光谱研究

合成了碳纳米管和金纳米颗粒的复合物, 测量了水溶液相中复合物的表面增强拉曼光谱, 结果表明, 碳纳米管的巯基化修饰可以提高碳纳米管与金纳米颗粒复合的效率, 随着金纳米颗粒负载量的增加, 碳纳米管的拉曼信号逐渐增强. 加入己二胺分子可以减小金纳米颗粒之间的距离使表面增强效应更显著, 碳纳米管的拉曼光谱得到进一步的增强. 还可进一步在复合体系中加入对巯基苯胺和罗丹明B等小分子拉曼探针, 利用金纳米颗粒的表面增强效应, 这种多元复合体系有望作为多通道拉曼成像探针材料.     

表面修饰MnS纳米微粒的结构表征

采用表面修饰的方法 ,以双十八烷基二硫代磷酸盐 (PyDDP)为表面修饰剂 ,制备了双十八烷氧基二硫代磷酸 (DDP)表面修饰的MnS纳米微粒。采用TEM ,DSC ,XRD和FTIR对表面修饰MnS纳米微粒进行结构分析。结果表明 :表面修饰MnS纳米微粒是由DDP表面修饰层和MnS纳米核心所构成 ,微粒尺寸在 5～ 10nm之间 ,无机MnS纳米晶核具有 γ MnS的晶型结构。DDP表面修饰MnS纳米微粒在氯仿、苯和甲苯等有机溶剂中都具有良好的分散性。     

硫化镉量子点-纳米金复合颗粒电化学发光传感器研究DNA的损伤

采用电化学发光方法研究了全氟辛酸(Perfluorooctanoic acid,PFOA)对DNA的损伤。结合量子点(Quantum dots,QDs)及纳米金(Nano gold,NG)颗粒的独特性能,制备了量子点-纳米金复合颗粒。将小牛胸腺DNA(ct-DNA)修饰在玻碳电极表面,然后修饰量子点-纳米金复合颗粒,构建了基于纳米金的量子点电化学发光传感器,研究了纳米金对量子点发光强度的增强作用,并利用该传感器进一步研究了PFOA对ctDNA的损伤作用。采用原子力显微镜(AFM)及X射线光电子能谱(XPS)技术对修饰电极的表面形态进行表征。实验结果表明,与单一的量子点电化学发光传感器相比,纳米金-量子点复合物电化学发光传感器的发光强度增大了近4倍。同时,ct-DNA经PFOA温浴作用后,电化学发光强度发生显著降低,表明PFOA导致了ct-DNA损伤。     

单金纳米棒的光散射分析化学:径向比与分析灵敏度的关系

单纳米颗粒作为信号感应单元在化学与生物传感应用中已引起广泛关注.本文通过暗场显微成像(iDFM)研究了不同径向比金纳米棒的光散射性质.将iDFM与扫描电子显微镜(SEM)结合表征种子生长法制备的金纳米棒,结果发现,因局域表面等离子体共振而展示出的红色散射光随单个金纳米棒的径向比增大逐渐红移,且金纳米棒对其周围介质折光率(RI)变化的敏感程度随径向比增大而增大.这一结果对设计高灵敏的生物纳米传感器、提高分析检测的灵敏度具有很好的指导意义.     

Reversible Modulation of Surface Plasmons in Gold Nanoparticles Enabled by Surface Redox Chemistry

Switchable surface redox chemistry is demonstrated in gold@iron/iron oxide core–shell nanoparticles with ambient oxidation and plasmon‐mediated reduction to modulate the oxidation state of shell layers. The iron shell can be oxidized to iron oxide through ambient oxidation, leading to an enhancement and red‐shift of the gold surface plasmon resonance (SPR). This enhanced gold SPR can drive reduction of the iron oxide shell under broadband illumination to reversibly blue‐shift and significantly dampen gold SPR absorption. The observed phenomena provide a unique mechanism for controlling the plasmonic properties and surface chemistry of small metal nanoparticles.     

Estimation of dielectric function of biotin-capped gold nanoparticles via signal enhancement on surface plasmon resonance

Biotin-capped gold nanoparticles assembled on flat gold with volume fraction f are studied by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) in order to estimate the dielectric function of the gold nanoparticles based on the Maxwell-Garnett (MG) theory. The complex dielectric function (epsilon',epsilon') of the spherical nanoparticles at three representative wavelengths in the vis-near-IR region, i.e., lambda = 543, 632.8, and 1152 nm, is estimated for a surface homogeneously covered with nanoparticles in order to discuss the wavelength dependence of the dielectric function. The SPR response of a surface covered with particles in 2D aggregates is also analyzed. The experimental SPR curve of the particle aggregates deviates from the theoretical predictions, suggesting dipole interactions between particles.     

Labeled gold nanoparticles immobilized at smooth metallic substrates: systematic investigation of surface plasmon resonance and surface-enhanced Raman scattering

This paper experimentally and theoretically investigates the influence of an underlying metallic substrate (i.e., gold and silver) on the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of labeled gold nanoparticles and the concomitant impact on the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signal from the labels. These experiments employ nanoparticles of varied sizes (30-100 nm) that are coated with a bifunctional Raman scatterer composed of (1) a disulfide for chemisorption to the nanoparticle surface, (2) a succinimidyl ester for formation of a covalent linkage to an amine-terminated self-assembled monolayer on the underlying substrate, and (3) an aryl nitro group with an intrinsically strong Raman active vibrational mode. This approach allows facile systematic assessments of how variations in nanoparticle size, substrate composition, and the gap between the nanoparticle and substrate affect the SPR of the bound particles. Both UV-vis transmission and reflection absorption (incident angle of 58 degrees ) spectroscopy are used to characterize the effect of each of these parameters on SPR. These results are then correlated with SERS enhancement factors (EFs) that were determined by accounting for particle surface concentrations, which were measured by atomic force microscopy, and the absolute number of labels, which were calculated on the basis of the surface area of each of the different-sized particles. All SERS spectra were collected at an incident angle of 58 degrees with respect to the surface normal. As expected, the SPR for particles in solution red-shifts with increasing particle size. More importantly, the SPR moves to even longer wavelengths as the size of immobilized particles increases and as the gap between the immobilized particle and substrate decreases. The red shift is also greater for a gold nanoparticle tethered to a gold substrate compared to a silver substrate. A theoretical model for the extinction of a particle above a flat substrate, corrected for surface scattering, radiation damping, and dynamic depolarization, is also briefly detailed. SPR results calculated with the model are consistent with the shifts observed in the SPR position for each of the manipulated experimental variables. The largest EFs are found for samples with an SPR maximum (lambda(max)) between the wavelengths for laser excitation (633 nm) and the Raman band for the symmetric nitro stretch of the particle coating (690 nm). As an example, an order of magnitude in the SERS enhancement factor is gained for a 60-nm particle immobilized 1.2 nm above a gold substrate (SPR lambda(max) = 657 nm) compared to that for a 30-nm particle (SPR lambda(max) = 596 nm).     

Enhanced surface plasmon resonance by Au nanoparticles immobilized on a dielectric SiO2 layer on a gold surface

This paper introduces strategies for enhancement of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) signal by adopting colloidal gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and a SiO₂ layer on a gold surface. AuNPs on SiO₂ on a gold surface were compared with an unmodified gold surface and a SiO₂ layer on a gold surface with no AuNPs attached. The modified surfaces showed significant changes in SPR signal when biomolecules were attached to the surface as compared with an unmodified gold surface. The detection limit of AuNPs immobilized on a SPR chip was 0.1 ng mL⁻¹ for the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a cancer marker, as measured with a spectrophotometer. Considering that the conventional ELISA method can detect ∼10 ng mL⁻¹ of PSA, the strategy described here is much more sensitive (∼100 fold). The enhanced shift of the absorption curve resulted from the coupling of the surface and particle plasmons by the SiO₂ layer and the AuNPs on the gold surface.     

亲油性AgCl纳米微粒的制备与表征

利用表面修饰方法在乙醇_水混合溶液中合成了双十八烷氧基二硫代磷酸盐修饰的AgCl纳米微粒 ,并用TEM、FT -IR、TG、XRD等仪器对其形貌、表面键合结构、热力学稳定性及晶体结构进行了表征 .结果表明 :双十八烷氧基二硫代磷酸盐与AgCl之间发生了化学键合作用 ,其亲油性大大改善 ,能在氯仿、四氢呋喃中均匀分散为澄清溶液 ,表面修饰层的存在有效地阻止了纳米粒子之间的团聚现象 ,因而粒径比较均匀 ,多数在 30nm左右     

油溶性金属Ni纳米微粒的制备与表征

纳米材料的制备、性能与应用已成为近年来的研究热点之一犤１犦。由于在催化、光学和电学材料中的广泛应用，超细单分散的金属微粒的制备与性质已引起人们的广泛兴趣。通常制备金属纳米微粒的方法有两种：一是把固体金属材料分裂为纳米尺寸的颗粒，如机械粉碎、电弧放电及金属原子蒸气沉积犤２犦，用这种方法制备的金属微粒粒径一般都比较大，且粒子尺寸分布宽，另一种是把金属原子制成纳米尺度的颗粒，如乳液聚合法犤３犦、热解犤４犦、γ－射线辐照犤５犦、脉冲电沉积犤６犦和化学还原犤７犦等，这种方法制备的微粒粒径通常分布窄且粒子小…     

SPR sensing of bisphenol A using molecularly imprinted nanoparticles immobilized on slab optical waveguide with consecutive parallel Au and Ag deposition bands coexistent with bisphenol A-immobilized Au nanoparticles

A slab-type optical waveguide (s_OWG)-based microfluidic SPR measurement system for bisphenol A was developed. This s_OWG possesses consecutive parallel gold and silver deposition bands in the line of plasmon flow, allowing two individual SPR signals to be independently obtained as a result of the difference in resonant reflection spectra of these metals. As a molecular recognition element, molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles (MIP-Np) were employed and immobilized on the surface of each of the gold and silver deposition bands. The resonant reflection spectra were measured on the MIP-Np-immobilized consecutive parallel gold and silver deposition bands coexistent with BPA-AuNp. The Ag-based SPR spectra showed a red shift (0.7 nm) when free BPA (0.1 mM) was passed over the BPA-AuNp/immobilized MIP-Np complexes formed on the s_OWG, unlike the case for the Au deposition band, while a large excess of BPA induced a blue shift due to the competitive desorption of BPA-AuNp from the immobilized MIP-Np on the s_OWG. By using the proposed detection system, binding events of other small molecules could be monitored in conjunction with the use of MIP-Np and labeled-AuNp.     

QCM and EC-SPR Studies of Cytochrome cSelf-assembled on Au Electrode and Enhancement of SPR Signal by Au Nanoparticles

Quartz crystal microbalance(QCM) and cyclic voltammetry(CV) were used to characterize the monolayer of cytochrome c(Cyt c), which was adsorbed on gold film modified with alkanethiol mixed monolayer. A direct comparison of protein surface coverages calculated from QCM and cyclic voltammetric measurements illustrates that the ratio of the electroactive Cyt c to the total surface-confined Cyt cis 34%, which suggests that the orientation is a main factor affecting the electroactivity of Cyt c. Moreover, surface plasmon resonance(SPR) measurement combined with CV “in situ” was used to investigate the conformational change of Cyt c in the redox process. Besides, Au nanoparticles(Au NPs) were adsorbed on the surface of Cyt c. The result indicates that Au NPs promote electron transfer between Cyt c and the gold electrode, and SPR result suggests Au NPs enhance SPR signal.     

Gold nanoparticles protected with pH and temperature-sensitive diblock copolymers

Aqueous dispersions of gold nanoparticles protected with a stimuli-sensitive diblock copolymer were studied as a function of pH and temperature. Poly(methacrylic acid)-block-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), PMAA-b-PNIPAM, copolymer was synthesized using the RAFT technique. A one-pot method utilizing the dithiobenzoate functionalized polymer was used to prepare gold nanoparticles protected with PMAA-b-PNIPAM. The gold nanoparticles coated with block copolymers, with the PNIPAM block bound to the particle surface and PMAA as an outer block form stimuli-sensitive aggregates in water. The changes in the absorption maxima of the surface plasmon resonance, SPR, of the gold particles and in the size of the aggregates were investigated as a function of pH and temperature. pH was observed to affect the size of the aggregates, whereas the effect of temperature was moderate. However, a blue shift in the SPR was observed both with decreasing pH and increasing temperature. Whereas the PMAA blocks control the colloidal stability of the particles and their aggregates, the thermo-sensitive PNIPAM blocks have a noticeable effect on the polarity of the immediate surroundings of the particles.