激光诱导时间分辨固体表面荧光光谱系统

采用斜射式激发样品光路结构,设计了应用于测试时间分辨固体表面荧光光谱系统。利用该系统研究了氧化锌薄膜在355 nm激光脉冲激发下的时间分辨固体表面荧光光谱。结果表明,该系统能够实现测量时间分辨固体表面荧光光谱,并由此测量了样品的固体表面荧光寿命。该系统结构简单可靠,灵敏度高,响应速度快。     

Femtosecond fluorescence upconversion setup with broadband detection in the ultraviolet

We show a femtosecond fluorescence upconversion setup with broadband detection to measure time-resolved emission spectra in the 300-550 nm range, upon excitation between 250 and 300 nm, with a time resolution of 100 fs. We present time-resolved fluorescence emission spectra of 2,5-diphenyloxazole in solution, which demonstrate the capabilities of the setup.     

Lanthanide Complex-Based Fluorescence Label for Time-Resolved Fluorescence Bioassay

Different from organic fluorescence dyes, fluorescent lanthanide complexes have the fluorescence properties of long fluorescence lifetime, large Stokes shift and sharp emission profile, which makes them favorable be used as the fluorescent labeling reagents for microsecond time-resolved fluorescence bioassay. Lanthanide complex-based fluorescence labels have been successfully used for highly sensitive time-resolved fluorescence immunoassay, DNA hybridization assay, cell activity assay, and bioimaging microscopy assay. Since the technique allows easy distinction of the specific fluorescence signal of the long-lived label from short-lived background noises associated with biological samples, scattering lights (Tyndall, Rayleigh and Raman scatterings) and the optical components (cuvettes, filters and lenses), the sensitivity of fluorescence bioassay has been remarkably improved. This paper summarized the recent developments of lanthanide complex-based fluorescence labels and their applications in time-resolved fluorescence bioassays mainly based on the authors’ researches and relative publications.     

Emerging biomedical and advanced applications of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy is presently regarded as a research tool in biochemistry, biophysics, and chemical physics. Advances in laser technology, the development of long-wavelength probes, and the use of lifetime-based methods, are resulting in the rapid migration of timeresolved fluorescence to the clinical chemistry lab, the patient's bedside, and even to the doctor's office and home health care. Additionally, time-resolved imaging is now a reality in fluorescence microscopy and will provide chemical imaging of a variety of intracellular analytes and/or cellular phenomena. Future horizons of state-of-the-art spectroscopy are also described. Two photon-induced fluorescence provides an increased information content to time-resolved data. Two photoninduced fluorescence, combined with fluorescence microscopy and time-resolved imaging, promises to provide detailed three-dimensional chemical imaging of cells. Additionally, it has recently been demonstrated that the pulses from modern picosecond lasers can be used to quench and/or modify the excited-state population by stimulated emission since the stimulated photons are directed along the quenching beam and are not observed. The phenomenon of light quenching should allow a new class of multipulse time-resolved fluorescence experiments, in which the excited-state population is modified by additional pulses to provide highly oriented systems.     

The Influence of Solvent Viscosity on the Fluorescence Decay and Time-Resolved Anisotropy of Green Fluorescent Protein

This report describes fluorescence decay and time-resolved anisotropy studies of green fluorescent protein (GFP) in various environments. The addition of glucose and fructose, NaCl, or polyethylene glycol changes the viscosity of the medium surrounding the GFP. Both the time-resolved anisotropy and the fluorescence decay of GFP are measured and it is shown that only the time-resolved anisotropy of GFP is affected by the viscosity, but not its fluorescence decay.     

激光诱导叶绿素荧光寿命的测量及其特性分析

提出了一种用于评估植物生长状况及环境监测的激光诱导叶绿素荧光寿命测量方法. 采用波长355 nm的激光作为光源激发叶绿素荧光, 由光电倍增管接收其荧光信号, 由于被测叶绿素荧光衰减函数与激光脉冲、仪器响应函数卷积在一起, 根据它们的特性, 运用时间分辨测量法分别测得叶绿素荧光及其背景信号, 并结合一种新型解卷积算法可分离出真实的叶绿素荧光衰减函数, 从而获取叶绿素的荧光寿命. 测试结果表明: 该方法能够实现叶绿素荧光寿命的高精度实时监测, 对不同叶绿素含量的溶液荧光寿命进行了测试, 证明叶绿素含量与其荧光寿命具有相关性, 并且拟合了叶绿素含量与荧光寿命的标定曲线. 关键词： 荧光寿命 激光诱导荧光 时间分辨测量法 叶绿素含量     

Fe~(3+)对石墨烯氧化物荧光淬灭机理的研究

采用改进的Humer法合成了石墨烯氧化物,利用搭建的时间分辨光谱探测系统详细探究了Fe~(3+)(浓度为0.5、1、2 mmol/L)对石墨烯氧化物荧光淬灭物理机制。稳态荧光发射光谱中,随着Fe~(3+)浓度的增加,石墨烯氧化物的荧光强度急剧减弱。时间分辨荧光光谱和飞秒瞬态吸收光谱研究证实,加入不同浓度Fe~(3+)的GO其动力学衰减曲线基本没有任何变化。结果表明,Fe~(3+)对石墨烯氧化物的荧光淬灭主要是静态的荧光淬灭过程。     

Steady-State and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Polarization Behavior of Acenaphthene

Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence polarization studies have been carried out on acenaphthene (ACE) in low-temperature glass solutions and at room temperature. In the low-temperature glass the fluorescence polarization values vary considerably with both emission and excitation wavelength. There is a time dependence (on the nanosecond time scale) of the fluorescence anisotropy, r(t), at 77 K, which has a strong dependence upon the excitation and emission wavelengths. Under these conditions, the time-dependent decay of the anisotropy is not attributable to chromophoric motion. The observations are consistent with emission from two closely lying and interconverting excited states. Rate constants for the photophysical processes involved have been determined by fitting the data using a model proposed by Fleming et. al. The results are discussed with particular reference to the care required in using dynamic fluorescence polarization measurements to determine energy transfer rates in systems containing this chromophore.     

多环芳烃时间分辨荧光光谱特性研究

利用时间分辨荧光光谱技术,研究了菲、荧蒽、芴、蒽、芘等五种多环芳烃的荧光时间分辨发射光谱特性。以289 nm受激拉曼光作为激发光源,研究了289 nm激发光作用下五种多环芳烃的延时特性和门宽特性。并以多环芳烃随延时时间的荧光峰强度衰减关系曲线,得到菲、荧蒽、芴、芘的荧光寿命分别为37.0, 32.7, 10.9, 147.0 ns。不同荧光物质具有特定的荧光光谱特性,多环芳烃时间分辨荧光光谱特性的研究可以为复杂水体中不同种类多环芳烃的诊断提供依据。     

Probing Si and Ti Based Sol-Gel Matrices by Fluorescence Techniques

The photophysical behavior of several probes incorporated in sol-gel–derived matrices (both monoliths and thin films) has been studied using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence, along with fluorescence anisotropy to study the matrix structure and to elucidate probe-matrix interactions. The probes studied include laser and solvatochromic dyes along with porphyrins and phthalocyanines. It was found that spectral shifts, time-resolved decays, and quantum yields depend on the type of matrix and its preparation conditions combined with the drying time and the nature of retained solvent, which can be added to act as an anticracking agent. The differences between the results in the TiO₂ matrix, where electron transfer is most probably present, and SiO₂ are shown.     

Parameter Recovery in Frequency-Domain Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Resolution of the Prototropic Forms of 5-Carboxyfluorescein in the Physiological pH Range

In time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, the resolution of fluorescence species becomes increasingly difficult as their respective lifetimes get closer. For a biexponential decay, a factor of 1.4 between the two decay times is commonly accepted as the practical resolution limit. The goal of the present contribution is to characterize the fluorescence probe 5-carboxyfluorescein using frequency-domain time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (FD-TRFS). To resolve the different prototropic forms of this probe, the limit above had to be overcome. For this purpose, the standard global analysis method was used, and special emphasis was put on the errors associated with the recovered parameters. In particular, a Monte Carlo simulation was performed to estimate these errors and the results of this analysis were compared with those delivered by software packages widely used in the field. The lifetimes of the trianionic and dianionic forms of 5-carboxyfluorescein were 4.01 ± 0.06 and 3.03 ± 0.09 ns, respectively, and the pK _a for this acid–base equilibrium was determined to be 6.9 ± 0.3.     

Excited-state hydrogen bonding effect on dynamic fluorescence of coumarin 102 chromophore in solution: A time-resolved fluorescence and theoretical study

The steady-state absorption and emission as well as the time-resolved fluorescence spectra of coumarin 102 (C102) in both aprotic and alcoholic solvents have been used to study the effect of excited-state hydrogen bond on the dynamic fluorescence of C102 chromophore in various solutions. The dual fluorescence of C102 in alcohols, which is dependent on the hydrogen-bonded donation ability of the solvent, has been assigned to the distribution of free C102 and a hydrogen-bonded complex. Furthermore, a shift of the fluorescence spectra induced by excited-state hydrogen bond has been demonstrated to take place within hundreds of picoseconds by the performance of the time-resolved fluorescence spectra with the time-correlated single-photon-counting (TCSPC) technique. Moreover, the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) has been used to calculate the hydrogen-bonded equilibrium constant pK_HB in different electronic states. It has been demonstrated for the first time that the hydrogen bond strengthening in electronic excited states could decrease the free energy of the hydrogen-bonded complex due to its stronger binding energy. Therefore, the hydrogen-bonded equilibrium will become markedly in favor of the hydrogen-bonded forms in electronic excited states by comparison with the case in the ground state.     

355 nm纳秒激光作用下荧蒽的时间分辨荧光光谱特征

多环芳烃由于具有三致(致癌、致畸、致突变)特性,其在环境中的检测受到人们广泛关注。利用时间分辨光谱技术,研究了荧蒽乙醇溶液的荧光光谱随延时时间和门宽改变的特性。研究了不同浓度荧蒽的时间分辨荧光光谱特性,以原始浓度的荧蒽为初始溶液,通过逐级稀释的方式,最终将原始溶液稀释16倍,拟合了不同稀释倍数下的荧蒽荧光强度衰减随延时时间变化的动力学曲线,得到了不同浓度荧蒽的拟合荧光寿命。研究结果表明,荧蒽的荧光光谱特性与光谱仪探测器延时时间和门宽宽度密切相关。固定延时时间,随着光谱仪门宽宽度的变化,荧蒽的荧光强度随着门宽的增大而逐渐增强。固定门宽,改变延时时间的过程中,荧蒽的荧光强度随延时时间呈现先增大,后减小的趋势。荧蒽的荧光强度随延时时间的衰减过程符合指数衰减过程,将荧蒽乙醇溶液进行逐级稀释,荧蒽荧光强度与延时时间的衰减进行指数拟合后,得到不同稀释倍数的荧蒽乙醇溶液的衰减动力学参数,随着稀释倍数的增大,拟合得到的荧蒽荧光寿命增大。多环芳烃时间分辨光谱特征的研究,可以为环境中多环芳烃的检测提供技术基础,由于不同荧光物质具有特征的荧光寿命,因此,可以利用多环芳烃与环境中其他荧光物质的不同荧光寿命特性,准确识别环境中的多环芳烃污染物。     

光谱法表征蛋白酶K的热变性过程

用不同温度处理蛋白酶K,以变性酪蛋白底物法测定酶活力,稳态/瞬态荧光光谱法和圆二色谱法测定空间构象和二级结构,研究温度对蛋白酶K酶活力和构象的影响。温度由25 ℃升高至65 ℃过程中,蛋白酶K的酶活力逐渐降低,半衰期缩短;发射光谱荧光强度降低,峰位由335 nm红移至354 nm;色氨酸残基同步荧光强度降低,酪氨酸残基同步荧光强度增大;色氨酸残基荧光寿命由4.427 1 ns降低至4.032 4 ns;α-螺旋百分含量降低。结果表明：采用稳态/瞬态荧光光谱法和圆二色谱法能较简便、准确的描述蛋白酶K的热稳定性变化;蛋白酶K的热变性过程符合三态模型,存在一个中间态;蛋白酶K分子内部存在酪氨酸残基对色氨酸残基的共振能量转移作用;α-螺旋是维系蛋白酶K活性中心构象稳定性的主要结构。     

芪盐LB多层膜的三维荧光谱分析

采用稳态、时间分辨荧光和三维荧光光谱技术研究了芪盐有机分子在溶液和芪盐/花生酸交替LB多层膜中的激发态的动力学特性.研究表明,芪盐分子在LB膜中形成H-聚集体,使得其荧光光谱发生蓝移.由于偶极间的相互作用使得聚集体的能级发生分裂,荧光衰减曲线可用双指数函数进行拟合.三维荧光谱发现随着衰减时间的推移,荧光峰逐渐向长波方向移动,不同波段具有不同的衰减驰豫时间.     

Kinetics study of ultrafast electron transfer from sensitized dyes to silver halide microcrystals

Spectral sensitization micromechanism of cyanine dyes J-aggregate adsorbed on the tabular and cubic AgBr microcrystals with different dye concentrations is studied by using picosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, and the dependences of electron transfer and spectral efficiency sensitization on different conditions are analysed in detail. With the steady spectroscopy, the wavelengths of absorption and fluorescence of J-aggregate adsorbed on AgBr microcrystals are found to shift to red relative to dye monomer. The spectrum of fluorescence has a red shift relative to the absorption peak. With the time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, the fluorescence decay curves of cyanine dyes J-aggregate adsorbed on the tabular and cubic AgBr grains are found to be fitted well by a double-exponential decay function. The fitting curves consist of a fast and a slow component. Because of the large amplitude of the fast component, this fast decay should be attributable mainly to the electron transfer from J-aggregate of dye to a conduction band of AgBr.     

薄膜特性的掠发射X射线荧光分析

掠射X射线荧光分析技术是实验室分析薄膜特性的一种重要工具。文章简述了利用掠出射X射线荧光技术分析薄膜厚度的原理和方法,介绍了一种可在实验室里实现薄膜特性测试的掠发射X射线荧光分析装置,该装置采用波长色散方式结合超薄窗流气正比计数管,可实现对轻元素的探测。最后从理论上计算了Si片上不同厚度的几种单层薄膜的X射线荧光强度和掠出射角的依赖关系。证明了掠发射X射线荧光分析是一种精确的分析薄膜厚度等特性的方法。     

Domain Formation in DODAB–Cholesterol Mixed Systems Monitored via Nile Red Anisotropy

The effect of the cholesterol (ch) on liposomes composed of the cationic lipid dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide (DODAB) was assessed by studying both the steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy of the dye Nile Red. The information obtained combined with analysis of the steady-state emission and fluorescence lifetime of Nile Red (NR) for different cholesterol concentrations (5–50%) elucidated the presence of “condensed complexes” and cholesterol-rich domains in these mixed systems. The steady-state fluorescence spectra were decomposed into the sum of two lognormal emissions, emanating from two different states, and the effect of temperature on the anisotropy decay of Nile Red for different cholesterol concentrations was observed. At room temperature, the time-resolved anisotropy decays are indicative of NR being relatively immobile (manifest by a high r _∞ value). At higher temperature, rotational times ca. 1 ns were obtained throughout and a trend in increasing hindrance was seen with increase of Ch content.     

单壁碳纳米管吸附联苯类有机物的荧光光谱分析

利用芳香族化合物对单壁碳纳米管进行了化学修饰,并利用荧光光谱以及时间分辨光谱对修饰后的单壁碳纳米管进行了表征分析.实验发现吸附对三联苯后有1个荧光峰位置发生了蓝移,这说明吸附过程使对三联苯的一些能级分布发生了变化.测量吸附前后对三联苯和蒽甲醇的荧光寿命,发现吸附后的荧光衰减曲线下降趋势更加明显,对曲线进行多指数拟合得出的荧光寿命及其数目发生了变化,分析了可能导致该现象的原因.     

荧光分子层析中的全时间分辨图像重建法

在荧光分子层析(Fluorescence molecular tomography,FMT)中.全时间分辨(Time Resolved.TR)测量包含了最多的光子传输信息.基于有限元一有限差分扩散方程的正向模型和Newtown-Raphson的逆向模型,将全时间分辨方法用于时域荧光分子层析中.用模拟数据对算法在空间分辨率、定量性、重建尺寸和灰度的保真度以及噪声稳健性等方面进行了验证.结果表明,此方法能够实时重建荧光产率和荧光寿命图像.与以前发展的基于广义脉冲谱技术(Generalized pulse spectrum technique,GPST)的特征数据法进行图像重建相比较.整体上优于广义脉冲谱技术.