玻璃硅烷化处理对罗丹明6G和亚甲基蓝吸附行为的影响

利用六甲基二硅烷胺对平面玻璃光波导(高折射率透明导光薄膜介质)进行硅烷化处理, 得到水接触角大于90°的疏水表面. 然后使用时间分辨光波导分光光谱技术研究水溶液中的罗丹明6G (R6G)和亚甲基蓝(MB)分子在疏水玻璃表面的吸附行为, 并与亲水玻璃条件下测得的结果进行对比. 对利用疏水玻璃光波导测得的R6G的吸附-脱附动力学曲线进行Langmuir拟合得到了R6G的吸附速率常数, 脱附速率常数以及吸附自由能. 并且发现与亲水玻璃情况相比, 吸附速率常数增大, 脱附速率常数减小, 吸附自由能更负. 在疏水玻璃表面形成的R6G和MB吸附层的吸光度与亲水玻璃情况相比显著升高, 表明这两种分子更倾向于吸附在疏水玻璃表面. 实验结果还发现玻璃硅烷化处理能够有效抑制这两种染料分子在表面的聚合反应.     

基于光波导分光光谱技术研究蛋白质与亚甲基蓝的竞争吸附行为

通过利用时间分辨光波导分光光谱技术原位测量从蛋白质-亚甲基蓝(MB)混合水溶液吸附到亲水玻璃光波导表面的MB可见光吸收谱,观测到在溶液pH值低于蛋白质等电点时MB与牛血清蛋白(BSA)以及MB与血红蛋白(Hb)存在竞争吸附行为,进一步测得这种竞争吸附行为对蛋白质浓度十分敏感,可以用于简单测定溶液中的蛋白质含量.基于Langmuir等温吸附理论推导出了两种分子竞争吸附的动力学方程,并利用该动力学方程对实验测得的吸光度随时间变化曲线进行了最佳拟合,揭示了玻璃表面吸附的MB分子个数在达到最大值后随时间呈指数衰减,同时得出拟合参数与蛋白质浓度呈准线性关系.     

光波导耦合的表面等离子体共振光谱传感器实时监测表面生化反应

利用厚度为100 μm且局部表面覆盖有45 nm金膜的玻璃片作为消逝波表面敏感元件,自主设计并组装了光波导耦合的光谱表面等离子体共振(SPR)生化传感器.本仪器使用一对玻璃棱镜作为输入-输出耦合器,卤钨灯作为白光光源,利用时间分辨的CCD光谱分析仪对光波导输出光谱进行快速测定.这种光波导耦合的光谱SPR传感器灵敏度高,稳定性好,时间分辨率高,光谱窗口和动态探测范围宽,非常适合于表面生化反应的动力学测试.利用这种光波导耦合的光谱SPR传感器对金纳米粒子在半胱胺修饰的金膜表面的自组装过程进行了原位实时监测.     

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.     

银表面罗丹明6G的电化学表面增强拉曼光谱研究

罗丹明6G（Rhodamine 6G,R6G）是单分子表面增强拉曼光谱（SM-SERS）研究中最常用的探针分子之一,对R6G分子在表面吸附行为的研究有助于了解R6G分子和表面的相互作用. 本文应用电化学和电化学表面增强拉曼光谱技术,研究不同电位下R6G的银电极表面的吸附行为. 结果表明,随着电位负移罗丹明6G在银表面上从垂直吸附转为倾斜吸附,该变化和碱性条件下吸附于金纳米粒子上R6G的吸附构象一致. 这说明,在部分单分子实验中所发现的R6G反常光谱其来源是单个R6G分子在表面吸附取向变化. 本研究对后续详细分析SM-SERS研究中单分子SERS谱峰变化的机制有一定的参考价值.     

梯度薄膜增敏的光波导表面散射传感方法用于生物气溶胶探测

生物气溶胶监测对于疾病防控、防化反恐、环境保护与资源调查等至关重要。本研究提出了一种基于高折射率梯度薄膜增敏的平板玻璃光波导表面散射传感方法,通过探测光波导散射光强度随时间的变化,分析生物气溶胶在光波导表面的颗粒沉降过程,进而获取生物气溶胶的浓度等信息。本研究通过理论推导得出光波导散射光强度与沉降粒子数之间的函数关系式,选用牛血清蛋白(BSA)水溶液作为生物气溶胶原液,采用五氧化二钽(Ta₂O₅)梯度薄膜增敏的离子交换平板玻璃单模光波导测试了BSA分子团聚体沉降引起的表面散射光变化,通过比对测试分析了Ta₂O₅梯度薄膜的增敏效果。实验结果表明,散射光强度随BSA分子团聚体沉降量的增加而增大,与BSA原液浓度呈良好线性关系,当单模玻璃光波导表面覆盖Ta₂O₅梯度薄膜后,其在横电基模(TE0)下对BSA分子团聚体沉降的探测灵敏度提高了50倍,并且采用TE0模测得的探测灵敏度比横磁基模(TM0)高4倍。本研究制备的Ta₂O₅     

光接枝表面修饰法制备牛血红蛋白的分子印迹微球

聚苯乙烯球载体表面经引发转移终止剂修饰后, 采用光接枝表面印迹方法制备了以牛血红蛋白(BHb)为模板分子、丙烯酰胺为功能单体和N,N′-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺为交联剂的分子印迹聚合物微球(MIP). 进一步采用红外光谱(IR)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和元素分析对聚合物微球进行了表征, 证实了载体表面成功地接枝了分子印迹层, 并研究了其吸附性能和分子识别选择性能. 结果表明, 采用光接枝表面修饰法制备的分子印迹微球对模板分子有着很好的吸附容量和识别选择性.     

MB-硬脂酸复合薄膜光波导传感器检测氯化氢气体

利用旋转甩涂法将亚甲基蓝(MB)掺杂的硬脂酸溶液涂成薄膜固定在钾离子(K⁺)交换玻璃光波导表面上, 研制了MB-硬脂酸复合薄膜/K⁺交换玻璃光波导传感器, 并对酸性气体进行了检测. 该复合薄膜与氯化氢(HCl)气体作用时, 薄膜颜色从深蓝色变为浅蓝色, 导致薄膜对倏逝波的吸收降低, 使传感器的输出光强度增强. 结果表明, 在室温下该传感器对低浓度的氯化氢气体仍具有较好的重复性和选择性响应, 可检测到体积分数为1×10^-6%的HCl气体, 响应和恢复时间分别为7和20 s, 相对标准偏差为±6.06%. 该传感器具有灵敏度高、 响应-恢复速度快、 可逆性好、 成本低和容易制备等特点.     

光波导传感元件在检测酸性气体中的应用

采用旋转甩涂法将甲基紫传感薄膜固定在特制的锡(Sn2+,Sn4+)掺杂玻璃光波导(Sn doped glass slide)表面,研究了该传感薄膜与HCl、H2S、以及SO2作用前后的可见吸收光谱的变化,并在此基础上研制了玻璃光波导酸性气体(HCl、H2S、SO2)传感元件。传感薄膜与酸性气体作用时,薄膜的颜色发生变化,从而降低薄膜对倏逝波的吸收,使传感器的输出光强度(信号)增强。本文采用流动注射法对酸性气体进行了检测。实验结果表明,在室温下,该传感元件对硫化氢气体具有明显的响应,而对相同浓度的其他酸性气体的响应相对较小,对浓度在6×10-4～2.5×10-5(V/V)的硫化氢气体具有良好的线性响应(R=0.9979,n=4),相对标准偏差(RSD)为±3.5%,具有响应快、可逆性和重复性好、容易制备、可以在室温下工作等特点。     

有机银溶胶的吸收光谱和表面增强Raman光谱研究

研究了2-氨基苯并咪唑(BIMNH₂)、LiCl、NaOEt对Ag/EtOH溶胶吸收光谱和表面增强Raman散射(SERS)光谱的影响。结果表明,少量的吸附分子BIMNH₂、LiCl、NaOEt均能改变溶胶聚集状态,从而影响其吸收光谱和SERS效应。此外,Cl^-还可与Ag、BIMNH₂形成表面络合物而增强SERS效应。对Ag溶胶体系SERS光谱的溶剂效应也作了初步研究。     

In situ investigation of coadsorption of myoglobin and methylene blue to hydrophilic glass by broadband time-resolved optical waveguide spectroscopy

Recently, we have developed a broadband optical waveguide (OWG) spectrometer by using commercially available glass plates of tens of micrometers in thickness as the substrate-free multimode waveguides (Qi et al. Opt. Lett. 2002, 27, 2001-2003). The spectrometer having a bandwidth from 360 to 800 nm is capable of simultaneously detecting the Soret-band absorption of heme proteins and the visible absorption of organic dyes. In this article, the spectrometer was used to in situ investigate coadsorption of methylene blue (MB) and myoglobin from the mixed aqueous solution onto bare glass. Both MB and myoglobin in the mixed solution are positively charged, which makes them not only avoid the chemical interaction between each other but also easy to adsorb to hydrophilic glass. It was found that the coadsorption of MB and myoglobin occurred just in the early stage and the glass surface was finally occupied by myoglobin. The OWG spectroscopic investigation into the respective MB and myoglobin adsorptions shows that MB adsorption is reversible to some degree but that of myoglobin is irreversible. It reveals that the electrostatic binding of myoglobin to bare glass is stronger than the case of MB. Therefore, the adsorbed MB can be substituted by myoglobin. Moreover, via the electrostatic repulsion the tightly immobilized myoglobin prevents bulk MB from occupying the empty surface sites. It is the reason MB is absent from the hydrophilic glass coated with a submonolayer of myoglobin. In the article, we explained both the strong dimerization of MB at the interface and a slow decrease with time of the Soret-band absorbance after its maximum was reached. We also estimated the myoglobin coverage based on the waveguide theory. The study shows the distinguished applicability of the broadband OWG spectroscopy for in situ, real-time monitoring of the dye-protein coadsorption to silica from the mixed solution.     

Aggregation of rhodamine 3B adsorbed in Wyoming Montmorillonite aqueous suspensions

The adsorption of Rhodamine 3B (R3B) molecules in Wyoming Montmorillonite (Mont) particles suspended in water was studied by electronic absorption spectroscopy. Several adsorbed R3B species in the Mont tactoids were characterized from the observed changes in the absorption spectra by increasing the relative dye/clay concentration and the stirring time of the samples. R3B molecules can be adsorbed as monomeric units both in the water/clay interface and in the interlayer space, and head-to-tail R3B dimers and trimers were present in the external surface of Mont. The formation of internally adsorbed R3B monomers by the migration of the externally adsorbed species to the interlayer space leads to the deaggregation of the dye molecules in the external surface.     

The Effects of Methylene Blue on the Optical Properties of Nanometer-sized CdS Organosol

The inverse micelle system of nanometer-sized CdS doped with Methylene Blue(MB) was synthesized and characterized by using absorption and fluorescence spectra. The results show that MB molecules were absorbed onto the surface of CdS nanoparticles and interacted with surfactants when its concentration was lower than 4×10^-6 mol/L. From the comparison of their spectra, MB molecules by adsorption have a strong quenched fluorescence emission of CdS nanoparticles with surface defect states. All responses and main mechanism are ascribed to the charge transfer between the CdS organosol and Methylene Blue molecules.     

A sub-second, time-resolved, linear dichroism measurement system for visible attenuated total reflection spectroscopy with a slab optical waveguide

A sub-second, time-resolved, linear dichroism (LD) measurement system was constructed, fitted with a slab optical waveguide (SOWG), and utilized to observe the adsorption process of methylene blue (MB) onto silica surfaces. In the system, a semiconductor laser (670 nm) was used as the light source and the out-coupled beam from the SOWG was split by a polarizing beam splitter into two polarized beams (TE and TM modes) to allow sequential linear dichroic ratio data to be obtained; the acquisition rate was 11 data sets per second. For an MB solution that contained no sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate (DBS), in contact with a bare silica surface, a clear decrease occurred in the average orientation angle of adsorbed MB in the initial stages of the adsorption process. This result may correspond to a change in the chemical form of MB from monomer to dimer.     

Oriented structure of octadecyl acridine orange intercalated in the monolayer and Langmuir–Blodgett film of octadecyl adenine‐thymine base pairs

The oriented structure of acridine orange (AO) in both monolayer and Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film has been studied by optical waveguide (OWG) spectroscopy using polarized incident light. Mixed monolayer and LB films, consisting of octadecyl acridine orange (C₁₈‐AO) incorporated in stacked base pairs of octadecyl adenine (C₁₈‐Ade) and octadecyl thymine (C₁₈‐Thy), were prepared on a quartz waveguide. Absorption of transverse electric field (TE) polarized light was about twice that of transverse magnetic field (TM) polarized light. Both OWG spectra have λ_max at 500 nm, which is characteristic of monomeric AO molecules. This result strongly suggests that C₁₈‐AO molecules were dispersed uniformly in the mixed monolayer and were excited more effectively by the TE polarized light. Since the absorption moment of AO molecules is related to their long axis, it is proposed that C₁₈‐AO molecules are incorporated in C₁₈‐Ade/C₁₈‐Thy pairs with the long axis parallel to the layer surface. The absorbance at 500 nm was proportional to the number of layers on the waveguide. The dichroic ratio of the absorbance at 500 nm for TE polarized light to that for TM polarized light was constant regardless of the number of layers. The C₁₈‐AO molecules were uniformly incorporated in each layer with the long axis relatively parallel to the layer surface. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

In situ monitoring of metal nanoparticle self-assembly on protein-functionalized glass by broadband optical waveguide spectroscopy

Broadband, time-resolved optical waveguide (OWG) spectroscopy has been used for in situ, real-time investigation into the self-assembly of metal nanoparticle monolayers. The OWG spectroscopy makes it possible to use the transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes to measure surface plasmon absorption of immobilized metal nanoparticles in two directions, parallel and normal to the waveguide surface. Therefore, this technique can provide direction-dependent information on the metal nanoparticles at the interface. In this paper, a 50-microm-thick glass plate was used as a slab waveguide and the kinetics of Au nanoparticle adsorption on a hemoglobin-functionalized glass substrate was examined in the early stage of self-assembly. The findings show that with the TE mode the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) behavior for immobilized Au nanoparticles is different from that with the TM mode.     

Development of a novel electrochemical cell for slab optical waveguide spectroscopy for in situ observation of methylene blue and anions on an electrode/electrolyte interface

A new spectroelectrochemical cell for slab optical waveguide (SOWG) spectroscopy was developed in order to observe in situ an electrode/electrolyte interface for bulk electrolysis. The new SOWG spectroelectrochemical cell has been evaluated by simultaneous electrochemical-absorption experiments of methylene blue (MB) using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and SOWG spectrometry. CV was performed in the SOWG spectroelectrochemical cell using indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass as the working electrode, platinum wire as the counter electrode and a silver/silver chloride electrode (Ag/AgCl) as the reference electrode. Based on the CV and SOWG spectrometric data, it was found that the SOWG spectra showed the MB spectra on the electrode surface selectively and that SOWG with the cell would be useful as a tool for in situ study of an electrode/electrolyte interface. Using this cell, the effects of the supporting electrolytes, NaNO₃, KNO₃, CH₃COONa, and CH₃COOK on the absorbance of MB were examined at the potential of +0.8 V versus Ag/AgCl. The decrease in MB absorbance by nitrate ions was greater than that of acetate ions. Therefore the competitive adsorption of nitrate ions was stronger than that of acetate ions. Thus, the decrease in absorbance of MB in the presence of anions demonstrates the competitive adsorption of anions. These results show that the extent of specific adsorption of electrolytes was observed by measuring the SOWG absorbance intensity of MB.