- Title
- Fluorescence Behaviour of an Aluminium Octacarboxy Phthalocyanine-NaYGdF 4
- Creator
- Taylor, Jessica, Litwinski, Christian, Nyokong, Tebello, Antunes, Edith M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189503
- Identifier
- vital:44852
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-015-1539-8"
- Description
- Using a methanol assisted thermal decomposition approach, sphere shaped NaYGdF4:Yb/Er upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) were successfully synthesized. The chemical, spectroscopic and fluorescence properties of the UCNPs were fully characterized. Characteristic upconversion fluorescence emissions were produced by the NPs in the green, red and NIR regions and the NPs were also shown to possess paramagnetic properties. The influence of the UCNPs on the spectroscopic and fluorescence properties of an aluminium octacarboxy phthalocyanine AlOCPc was investigated. Covalent conjugation to an AlOCPc resulted in a large blue shift of the phthalocyanine’s Q band, which was accompanied by a decrease in the Pc’s fluorescence lifetime in DMSO. By combining the phthalocyanine and upconversion nanoparticle, we present a system capable of multimodal imaging, using both the upconversion nanoparticle’s and phthalocyanine’s emission, and magnetic resonance imaging (as a result of doping the upconversion nanoparticles with Gd3+ ions).
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (13 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- SpringerLink
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Fluorescence, Taylor, J., Litwinski, C., Nyokong, T. and Antunes, E., 2015. Fluorescence Behaviour of an Aluminium Octacarboxy Phthalocyanine-NaYGdF 4: Yb/Er Nanoparticle Conjugate. Journal of fluorescence, 25(3), pp.489-501., Journal of Fluorescence volume 25 number 3 p. 489 2015 1573-4994
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- Open Access
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Nyokong, Tebello (Distinguished Professor)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology
RU Department of Chemistry
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