Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have garnered considerable attention in the fields of biosensing,optoelectronic devices,and anticounterfeiting because of their substantial Stokes shifts,tunable ...Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have garnered considerable attention in the fields of biosensing,optoelectronic devices,and anticounterfeiting because of their substantial Stokes shifts,tunable emission wavelengths,and prolonged lifetimes.These materials offer remarkable advantages for biological imaging applications by effectively reducing environmental autofluorescence and enhancing imaging resolution.Recently,host-guest systems have been employed as efficient approaches to fabricate pure-organic RTP materials for bioimaging,providing benefits such as controllable preparation and flexible modulation.Consequently,an increasing number of corresponding studies are being reported;however,a comprehensive systematic review is still lacking.Therefore,we summarize recent advances in the development of pureorganic RTP materials using host-guest systems with regard to bioimaging,including rigid matrices and sensitization.The challenge and potential of RTP for biological imaging are also proposed to promote the biomedical applications of organic RTP materials with excellent optical properties.展开更多
The potential application of gold nanoparticles(GNPs)in biomedicine has been extensively reported.However,there is still too much puzzle about their real face and potential health risks in comparison with the commerci...The potential application of gold nanoparticles(GNPs)in biomedicine has been extensively reported.However,there is still too much puzzle about their real face and potential health risks in comparison with the commercial drug molecules.The emergence of atomically precise gold nanoclusters(APGNCs)provides the opportunity to address the puzzle due to their ultrasmall size,defined molecular formula,editable surface engineering,available structures and unique physicochemical properties including excellent biocompatibility,strong luminescence,enzyme-like activity and efficient renal clearance,et al.Recently,these advantages of APGNCs also endow them promising performances in healthcare such as bioimaging,drug delivery,antibacterial and cancer therapy.Especially,their clear composition and structures like the commercial drug molecules facilitate the study of their functions and the structure-activity relationship in healthcare,which is essential for the guided design of APGNC nanomedicine.Therefore,this review will focus the advantages and recent progress of APGNCs in health care and envision their prospects for the future.展开更多
Numerical Finite-element method (FEM) based algorithms have been widely applied for the reconstruction of the photoacoustic image. As compared with the traditional analytic methods, the FEM based methods can be easily...Numerical Finite-element method (FEM) based algorithms have been widely applied for the reconstruction of the photoacoustic image. As compared with the traditional analytic methods, the FEM based methods can be easily used to deal with problems with irregularly shaped imaging domain. However, the FEM based algorithms are usually computationally intensive because repeated manipulations of matrices with larger size are needed during the reconstruction process. To tackle such a problem, a novel method is proposed for reducing the size of the matrix to be inversed during the reconstruction process and hence speed up the inverse reconstruction without any sacrifice of the reconstruction accuracy.展开更多
This study is to report a ZnSe quantum dot with a large two-photon absorption cross section and good biocompatibility,which can be used in bioimaging.Fluorescence emission at 410 nm is observed in the quantum dot unde...This study is to report a ZnSe quantum dot with a large two-photon absorption cross section and good biocompatibility,which can be used in bioimaging.Fluorescence emission at 410 nm is observed in the quantum dot under 760-nm laser excitation.These biocompatible quantum dots exhibit a two-photon cross-section of 9.1×105 GM(1 GM=10-50 cm4·s/photon).Two-photon excited laser scanning microscopic images show that cells co-cultured with ZnSe quantum dots are found in the blue channel at a fluorescence intensity that is 14.5 times that of control cells not cocultured with quantum dots.After incubating zebrafish larvae with ZnSe quantum dots for 24 h,the fluorescence intensity of the yolk sac stimulated by ultraviolet light is 2.9 times that of the control group.The proposed material shows a great potential application in biological imaging.展开更多
In the context of the circular economy,the huge amounts of biomass waste should be converted into value-added materials and energy to diminish pollution,atmospheric CO_(2)levels and costly waste disposal.Biological im...In the context of the circular economy,the huge amounts of biomass waste should be converted into value-added materials and energy to diminish pollution,atmospheric CO_(2)levels and costly waste disposal.Biological imaging usually uses expensive and toxic chemicals e.g.,organic dyes,semiconductor quantum dots,calling for safer,greener,cheaper fluorescent probes for biological imaging in vitro and in vivo.In these regards,carbon quantum dots(CQDs)-based fluorescent probes using biomass waste as a precursor may have much higher potential.Here we transformed the biomass waste of peach leaves into value-added fluorescent CQDs through a low-cost and green one-step hydrothermal process.The obtained CQDs show excitation-dependent photoluminescence properties with a fluorescence lifetime of 5.96 ns and a quantum yield of 7.71%without any passivation.In addition,the CQDs have a fine size of 1.9 nm with good hydrophilicity and high fluorescent stability over pH 4.0-11.0 range.Fluorescence imaging of in vitro cell cultures and in vivo with zebrafish show that CQDs possess ultra-low toxicity and remarkable performance for biological imaging.Even when CQDs present at a concentration as high as500μg/m L,the organism can still maintain more than 90%activity both in vitro and in vivo,and present bright fluorescence.The cheaper,greener,ultra-low toxicity CQDs developed in this work is a potential candidate for biological imaging in vitro and in vivo.展开更多
Rare-earth(RE)based luminescent probes exhibit rich optical properties including upconversion and down-conversion luminescence spanning a broad spectral range from 300 to 3,000 nm,and have generated great scientific a...Rare-earth(RE)based luminescent probes exhibit rich optical properties including upconversion and down-conversion luminescence spanning a broad spectral range from 300 to 3,000 nm,and have generated great scientific and practical interest from telecommunication to biological imaging.While upconversion nanoparticles have been investigated for decades,down-conversion luminescence of RE-based probes in the second near-infrared(NIR-II,1,000-1,700 nm)window for in vivo biological imaging with sub-centimeter tissue penetration and micrometer image resolution has come into light only recently.In this review,we present recent progress on RE-based NIR-II probes for in vivo vasculature and molecular imaging with a focus on Er3+-based nanoparticles due to the down-conversion luminescence at the long-wavelength end of the NIR-II window(NIR-IIb,1,500-1,700 nm).Imaging in NIR-IIb is superior to imaging with organic probes such as ICG and IRDye800 in the^800 nm NIR range and the 1,000-1,300 nm short end of NIR-II range,owing to minimized light scattering and autofluorescence background.Doping by cerium and other ions and phase engineering of Er^3+-based nanoparticles,combined with surface hydrophilic coating optimization can afford ultrabright,biocompatible NIR-IIb probe towards clinical translation for human use.The Nd^3+-based probes with NIR-II emission at 1,050 and 1,330 nm are also discussed,including Nd^3+doped nanocrystals and Nd^3+-organic ligand complexes.This review also points out future directions for further development of multi-functional RE NIR-II probes for biological imaging.展开更多
In consideration of various advantages such as less harm,higher sensitivity,and deeper imaging depth,etc.,AIE materials with longwave emission are attracting extensive attention in the fields of vascular visualization...In consideration of various advantages such as less harm,higher sensitivity,and deeper imaging depth,etc.,AIE materials with longwave emission are attracting extensive attention in the fields of vascular visualization,organelle imaging,cells tracker,forensic detection,bioprobe and chemosensor,etc.In this work,a novel fluorescent(R)-PVHMA monomer with chirality and aggregation-induced emission enhancement(AEE)characteristics was acquired through enzymatic transesterification reaction basing on phenothiazine,and its[α]D25℃value was about-6.39°with a 3.08 eV bandgap calculated by the quantum calculations.Afterwards,a series of PEG-PVH1 and PEG-PVH2 copolymers with chirality feature were achieved through RAFT polymerization of the obtained(R)-PVHMA and PEGMA with various feed ratios.When the feed molar ratio of(R)-PVHMA increased from 21.5%to 29.6%,its actual molar fractions in the PEG-PVH1 and PEG-PVH2 copolymers accordingly increased from 18.1%to 25.7%.The molecular weight of PEG-PVH1 was about 2.2×10^(4) with a narrow PDI,and their kinetics estimation showed a first-order quasilinear procedure.In aqueous solution,the amphiphilic copolymers PEG-PVH could self-assemble into about 100 nm nanoparticles.In a 90%water solution of H_(2)O and THF mixture,the fluorescence intensity had the maximum value,and the emission wavelength presented at 580 and 630 nm.The investigation of cytotoxicity and cells uptake showed that PEG-PVH FONs performed outstanding biocompatibility and excellent cells absorption effects,which have great potential in bioimaging application.展开更多
Health care and medical care have always been dominant topics in human society.The field of precision medicine,iatrotechnics revolution and timely on-demand detection have continued to evolve in response to increasing...Health care and medical care have always been dominant topics in human society.The field of precision medicine,iatrotechnics revolution and timely on-demand detection have continued to evolve in response to increasing demands from the society.Furthermore,the emergence of innovative materials and their applications offer promising prospects for advancing global health.Polyoxometalates(POMs)are negatively-charged molecular metal oxides with well-defined structures,beautiful geometries and nanoscale sizes.Owing to their vast diversity in composition,structure,nuclearity and charge,they constitute a significant subcategory of inorganic clusters that contain bridging oxygen atoms between two or more metal ions.Nowadays,POMs based nanocomposites have been widely applied in the field of disease diagnosis,anticancer therapy and antibacterial therapy as new generation bioactive materials.In this review,the recent advances of POMs based nanocomposites in bioapplications are summarized and the future perspectives are discussed.展开更多
Based on 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalic anhydride,one novel ratiometric fluorescence H_(2)S-probe(IDNA)was designed and synthesized.Further studies indicate that IDNA can sensitively recognize H_(2)S(detection limit of 7 μmo...Based on 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalic anhydride,one novel ratiometric fluorescence H_(2)S-probe(IDNA)was designed and synthesized.Further studies indicate that IDNA can sensitively recognize H_(2)S(detection limit of 7 μmol/L)with good selectivity and anti-interference ability.In addition,IDNA has satisfactory photostability in HeLa cells,ability of mitochondrial co-localization,and can be utilized in fluorescence imaging of H_(2)S.展开更多
It is challenging to develop molecular fluorophores in the second near-infrared(NIR-Ⅱ)window with long wavelength emission and high brightness,which can improve the performance of biological imaging.Herein,we report ...It is challenging to develop molecular fluorophores in the second near-infrared(NIR-Ⅱ)window with long wavelength emission and high brightness,which can improve the performance of biological imaging.Herein,we report a molecular engineering approach to afford NIR-Ⅱ fluorophores with these merits based on fused-ring acceptor(FRA)molecules.Dioctyl 3,4-propylenedioxy thiophene(PDOT-C8)is utilized as the bridging donor to replace 3-ethylhexyloxy thiophene(3-EHOT),leading to more than 20 times enhancement of brightness.The nanofluorophores(NFs)based on the optimized CPTIC-4F molecule exhibit an emission peak of 1,110 nm with a fluorescence quantum yield(QY)of 0.39%(QY of IR-26 is 0.050%in dichloroethane as reference)and peak absorption coefficient of 14.5 x 10^4 M^-1·cm^-1 in aqueous solutions,which are significantly higher than those of 3-EHOT based COTIC-4F NFs.It is found that PDOT-C8 can weaken intermolecular aggregation,enhance protection of molecular backbone from water,and decrease backbone distortion,beneficial for the high brightness.Compared with indocyanine green with same injection dose,CPTIC-4F NFs show 10 times higher signal-to-background ratio for whole body vessels imaging at 1,300 nm long pass filters.展开更多
Red emissive carbon dots(CDs)are highly desired for biological applications.However,serious luminescence quenching of red emissive CDs in aqueous solution greatly hinders their application in high performance biologic...Red emissive carbon dots(CDs)are highly desired for biological applications.However,serious luminescence quenching of red emissive CDs in aqueous solution greatly hinders their application in high performance biological imaging.Herein,we reported a facile strategy to realize enhanced red emission of CDs in aqueous solution by surface modification with polyetherimide(PEI)via microwave heating method.High photoluminescence quantum yield(PLQY)of 25%was realized from the PEI functionalized CDs(CDs@PEI)in aqueous solution.The proposed PEI functionalization strategy not only protects the red emission against water molecules quenching,but also reverses the surface charges from negativity to positivity to promote cellular uptake of CDs,leading to clear cell imaging in red fluorescence region.More important,CDs@PEI exhibits much better photostability than commercial red emissive dye(MitoT racker red)in cell fluorescent imaging.Potential application of CDs@PEI on fast staining of cells for clonogenic assay has also been demonstrated.展开更多
Aggregation-induced emission(AIE)luminogens(AIEgens)with high brightness in aggregates exhibit great potentials in biological imaging,but these AIEgens are seldom applied in super-resolution biological imaging,especia...Aggregation-induced emission(AIE)luminogens(AIEgens)with high brightness in aggregates exhibit great potentials in biological imaging,but these AIEgens are seldom applied in super-resolution biological imaging,especially in the imaging by using the structural illumination microscope(SIM).Based on this consideration,we synthesized the donor-acceptor typed AIEgen of DTPA-BTN,which not only owns high brightness in the near-infrared(NIR)emission region from 600 nm to 1000 nm(photoluminescence quantum yield,PLQYs=11.35%),but also displays excellent photo-stability.In addition,AIE nanoparticles based on 4,7-ditriphenylamine-[1,2,5]-thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine(DTPA-BTN)were also prepared with highly emissive features and excellent biocompatibility.Finally,the developed DTPA-BTN-based AIE nanoparticles were applied in the super-resolution cellular imaging via SIM,where much smaller full width at half-maximum values and high signal to noise ratios were obtained,indicating the superior imaging resolution.The results here imply that highly emissive AIEgens or AIE nanoparticles can be promising imaging agents for super-resolution imaging via SIM.展开更多
Two-dimensional(2D)graphitic carbon nitride(g-C_(3)N_(4))possesses a unique geometric configuration featuring a superimposed heterocyclic sp2 carbon and nitrogen framework.Its fluorescence may be attributed to π-π^(...Two-dimensional(2D)graphitic carbon nitride(g-C_(3)N_(4))possesses a unique geometric configuration featuring a superimposed heterocyclic sp2 carbon and nitrogen framework.Its fluorescence may be attributed to π-π^(*),lone pair(LP)-π^(*),or LP-δ^(*)transitions.So far,the manipulation of its fluorescence emissions is largely unexploited and remains challenging.Herein,for the first time,rare-earth doping into the backbone structure of a g-C_(3)N_(4) framework under microwave agitation endows unprecedented fluorescence nature,with the emergence of two exceptional new fluorescence emissions in the 450-700 nm range.With terbium-doped g-C_(3)N_(4):Tb as a representative,these emissions exhibit distinctive features,that is,very sharp fluorescence peaks with narrow full width at half maximum(FWHM)(peak width at half-height)of<12 nm,quantumyields of 2.3±0.0% and 7.6±0.1% for the new emissions at λ_(ex)/λ_(em)=290/490 nm,and 290/545 nm,respectively;and a large Stokes shift of>200 nm.These features of g-C_(3)N_(4):Tb are most advantageous for applications in various fields,as demonstrated by(1)tracking biodistribution of g-C_(3)N_(4) in vivo with mass spectrometric imaging where the doped terbium serves as a tag,(2)a biometrics study facilitating the identification of an individual through fingerprint,and(3)anti-counterfeiting with g-C_(3)N_(4)∶Tb as a dual-functional marker to facilitate fluorescence and mass spectrometric imaging.展开更多
基金the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22125803, 22020102006 and 22307036)a project supported by the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2018SHZDZX03)+2 种基金the Program of Shanghai Academic/Technology Research Leader (No. 20XD1421300)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2023M731079)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Organic room-temperature phosphorescence(RTP)materials have garnered considerable attention in the fields of biosensing,optoelectronic devices,and anticounterfeiting because of their substantial Stokes shifts,tunable emission wavelengths,and prolonged lifetimes.These materials offer remarkable advantages for biological imaging applications by effectively reducing environmental autofluorescence and enhancing imaging resolution.Recently,host-guest systems have been employed as efficient approaches to fabricate pure-organic RTP materials for bioimaging,providing benefits such as controllable preparation and flexible modulation.Consequently,an increasing number of corresponding studies are being reported;however,a comprehensive systematic review is still lacking.Therefore,we summarize recent advances in the development of pureorganic RTP materials using host-guest systems with regard to bioimaging,including rigid matrices and sensitization.The challenge and potential of RTP for biological imaging are also proposed to promote the biomedical applications of organic RTP materials with excellent optical properties.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21971246,22371108,22075122)Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province(tsqn202211242)the Chunhui Program of the Ministry of Education of China(HZKY20220463).
文摘The potential application of gold nanoparticles(GNPs)in biomedicine has been extensively reported.However,there is still too much puzzle about their real face and potential health risks in comparison with the commercial drug molecules.The emergence of atomically precise gold nanoclusters(APGNCs)provides the opportunity to address the puzzle due to their ultrasmall size,defined molecular formula,editable surface engineering,available structures and unique physicochemical properties including excellent biocompatibility,strong luminescence,enzyme-like activity and efficient renal clearance,et al.Recently,these advantages of APGNCs also endow them promising performances in healthcare such as bioimaging,drug delivery,antibacterial and cancer therapy.Especially,their clear composition and structures like the commercial drug molecules facilitate the study of their functions and the structure-activity relationship in healthcare,which is essential for the guided design of APGNC nanomedicine.Therefore,this review will focus the advantages and recent progress of APGNCs in health care and envision their prospects for the future.
文摘Numerical Finite-element method (FEM) based algorithms have been widely applied for the reconstruction of the photoacoustic image. As compared with the traditional analytic methods, the FEM based methods can be easily used to deal with problems with irregularly shaped imaging domain. However, the FEM based algorithms are usually computationally intensive because repeated manipulations of matrices with larger size are needed during the reconstruction process. To tackle such a problem, a novel method is proposed for reducing the size of the matrix to be inversed during the reconstruction process and hence speed up the inverse reconstruction without any sacrifice of the reconstruction accuracy.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61774062 and U20A20206)the Science and Techology Program of Guangzhou City,China(Grant No.2019050001)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(Grant Nos.2018A030313854 and2016A030308010)。
文摘This study is to report a ZnSe quantum dot with a large two-photon absorption cross section and good biocompatibility,which can be used in bioimaging.Fluorescence emission at 410 nm is observed in the quantum dot under 760-nm laser excitation.These biocompatible quantum dots exhibit a two-photon cross-section of 9.1×105 GM(1 GM=10-50 cm4·s/photon).Two-photon excited laser scanning microscopic images show that cells co-cultured with ZnSe quantum dots are found in the blue channel at a fluorescence intensity that is 14.5 times that of control cells not cocultured with quantum dots.After incubating zebrafish larvae with ZnSe quantum dots for 24 h,the fluorescence intensity of the yolk sac stimulated by ultraviolet light is 2.9 times that of the control group.The proposed material shows a great potential application in biological imaging.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21976116 and 52161145409)the Shaanxi Science and Technology Program(No.2020KWZ-005)+1 种基金SAFEA of China(“Belt and Road”Innovative Exchange Foreign Expert Project,No.DL2021041001L)Researchers Supporting Project number(No.RSP-2021/149),King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia。
文摘In the context of the circular economy,the huge amounts of biomass waste should be converted into value-added materials and energy to diminish pollution,atmospheric CO_(2)levels and costly waste disposal.Biological imaging usually uses expensive and toxic chemicals e.g.,organic dyes,semiconductor quantum dots,calling for safer,greener,cheaper fluorescent probes for biological imaging in vitro and in vivo.In these regards,carbon quantum dots(CQDs)-based fluorescent probes using biomass waste as a precursor may have much higher potential.Here we transformed the biomass waste of peach leaves into value-added fluorescent CQDs through a low-cost and green one-step hydrothermal process.The obtained CQDs show excitation-dependent photoluminescence properties with a fluorescence lifetime of 5.96 ns and a quantum yield of 7.71%without any passivation.In addition,the CQDs have a fine size of 1.9 nm with good hydrophilicity and high fluorescent stability over pH 4.0-11.0 range.Fluorescence imaging of in vitro cell cultures and in vivo with zebrafish show that CQDs possess ultra-low toxicity and remarkable performance for biological imaging.Even when CQDs present at a concentration as high as500μg/m L,the organism can still maintain more than 90%activity both in vitro and in vivo,and present bright fluorescence.The cheaper,greener,ultra-low toxicity CQDs developed in this work is a potential candidate for biological imaging in vitro and in vivo.
基金supported by the National Institutes of Health(grant no.DP1-NS-105737).
文摘Rare-earth(RE)based luminescent probes exhibit rich optical properties including upconversion and down-conversion luminescence spanning a broad spectral range from 300 to 3,000 nm,and have generated great scientific and practical interest from telecommunication to biological imaging.While upconversion nanoparticles have been investigated for decades,down-conversion luminescence of RE-based probes in the second near-infrared(NIR-II,1,000-1,700 nm)window for in vivo biological imaging with sub-centimeter tissue penetration and micrometer image resolution has come into light only recently.In this review,we present recent progress on RE-based NIR-II probes for in vivo vasculature and molecular imaging with a focus on Er3+-based nanoparticles due to the down-conversion luminescence at the long-wavelength end of the NIR-II window(NIR-IIb,1,500-1,700 nm).Imaging in NIR-IIb is superior to imaging with organic probes such as ICG and IRDye800 in the^800 nm NIR range and the 1,000-1,300 nm short end of NIR-II range,owing to minimized light scattering and autofluorescence background.Doping by cerium and other ions and phase engineering of Er^3+-based nanoparticles,combined with surface hydrophilic coating optimization can afford ultrabright,biocompatible NIR-IIb probe towards clinical translation for human use.The Nd^3+-based probes with NIR-II emission at 1,050 and 1,330 nm are also discussed,including Nd^3+doped nanocrystals and Nd^3+-organic ligand complexes.This review also points out future directions for further development of multi-functional RE NIR-II probes for biological imaging.
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Nos.2018A030313784 and 2021A1515410008)the Colleges and Universities Projects of Guangdong Province(Nos.2020KTSCX180,2020KTSCX184 and 2020ZDZX3027)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51673107)the Climbing Plan of Guangdong Province(No.PDJH2021a0616)。
文摘In consideration of various advantages such as less harm,higher sensitivity,and deeper imaging depth,etc.,AIE materials with longwave emission are attracting extensive attention in the fields of vascular visualization,organelle imaging,cells tracker,forensic detection,bioprobe and chemosensor,etc.In this work,a novel fluorescent(R)-PVHMA monomer with chirality and aggregation-induced emission enhancement(AEE)characteristics was acquired through enzymatic transesterification reaction basing on phenothiazine,and its[α]D25℃value was about-6.39°with a 3.08 eV bandgap calculated by the quantum calculations.Afterwards,a series of PEG-PVH1 and PEG-PVH2 copolymers with chirality feature were achieved through RAFT polymerization of the obtained(R)-PVHMA and PEGMA with various feed ratios.When the feed molar ratio of(R)-PVHMA increased from 21.5%to 29.6%,its actual molar fractions in the PEG-PVH1 and PEG-PVH2 copolymers accordingly increased from 18.1%to 25.7%.The molecular weight of PEG-PVH1 was about 2.2×10^(4) with a narrow PDI,and their kinetics estimation showed a first-order quasilinear procedure.In aqueous solution,the amphiphilic copolymers PEG-PVH could self-assemble into about 100 nm nanoparticles.In a 90%water solution of H_(2)O and THF mixture,the fluorescence intensity had the maximum value,and the emission wavelength presented at 580 and 630 nm.The investigation of cytotoxicity and cells uptake showed that PEG-PVH FONs performed outstanding biocompatibility and excellent cells absorption effects,which have great potential in bioimaging application.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.21801153)Academic promotion program of Shandong First Medical University (N0.2019LJ003)。
文摘Health care and medical care have always been dominant topics in human society.The field of precision medicine,iatrotechnics revolution and timely on-demand detection have continued to evolve in response to increasing demands from the society.Furthermore,the emergence of innovative materials and their applications offer promising prospects for advancing global health.Polyoxometalates(POMs)are negatively-charged molecular metal oxides with well-defined structures,beautiful geometries and nanoscale sizes.Owing to their vast diversity in composition,structure,nuclearity and charge,they constitute a significant subcategory of inorganic clusters that contain bridging oxygen atoms between two or more metal ions.Nowadays,POMs based nanocomposites have been widely applied in the field of disease diagnosis,anticancer therapy and antibacterial therapy as new generation bioactive materials.In this review,the recent advances of POMs based nanocomposites in bioapplications are summarized and the future perspectives are discussed.
基金We are grateful for the financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U1704161,U1504203,21601158)Zhengzhou University(No.32210431).
文摘Based on 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalic anhydride,one novel ratiometric fluorescence H_(2)S-probe(IDNA)was designed and synthesized.Further studies indicate that IDNA can sensitively recognize H_(2)S(detection limit of 7 μmol/L)with good selectivity and anti-interference ability.In addition,IDNA has satisfactory photostability in HeLa cells,ability of mitochondrial co-localization,and can be utilized in fluorescence imaging of H_(2)S.
基金Y.L.acknowledges financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21772084)Fundamental Research Layout of Shenzhen(No.JCY20180504165657443)+2 种基金H.S.thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11727810,61720106009 and 21603074)the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.19JC1412200)for funding support and the ECNU Multifunctional Platform for Innovation(001)and HPC Research Computing Team for providing computational and storage resourcesX.Z thanks the funding supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91859101,81971744,and U1932107).
文摘It is challenging to develop molecular fluorophores in the second near-infrared(NIR-Ⅱ)window with long wavelength emission and high brightness,which can improve the performance of biological imaging.Herein,we report a molecular engineering approach to afford NIR-Ⅱ fluorophores with these merits based on fused-ring acceptor(FRA)molecules.Dioctyl 3,4-propylenedioxy thiophene(PDOT-C8)is utilized as the bridging donor to replace 3-ethylhexyloxy thiophene(3-EHOT),leading to more than 20 times enhancement of brightness.The nanofluorophores(NFs)based on the optimized CPTIC-4F molecule exhibit an emission peak of 1,110 nm with a fluorescence quantum yield(QY)of 0.39%(QY of IR-26 is 0.050%in dichloroethane as reference)and peak absorption coefficient of 14.5 x 10^4 M^-1·cm^-1 in aqueous solutions,which are significantly higher than those of 3-EHOT based COTIC-4F NFs.It is found that PDOT-C8 can weaken intermolecular aggregation,enhance protection of molecular backbone from water,and decrease backbone distortion,beneficial for the high brightness.Compared with indocyanine green with same injection dose,CPTIC-4F NFs show 10 times higher signal-to-background ratio for whole body vessels imaging at 1,300 nm long pass filters.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61922091)the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao SAR(Nos.0040/2019/A1,0073/2019/AMJ,0128/2020/A3 and 0131/2020/A3)University of Macao(Nos.SRG2019-00163-IAPME,MYRG2019-00103-IAPME)。
文摘Red emissive carbon dots(CDs)are highly desired for biological applications.However,serious luminescence quenching of red emissive CDs in aqueous solution greatly hinders their application in high performance biological imaging.Herein,we reported a facile strategy to realize enhanced red emission of CDs in aqueous solution by surface modification with polyetherimide(PEI)via microwave heating method.High photoluminescence quantum yield(PLQY)of 25%was realized from the PEI functionalized CDs(CDs@PEI)in aqueous solution.The proposed PEI functionalization strategy not only protects the red emission against water molecules quenching,but also reverses the surface charges from negativity to positivity to promote cellular uptake of CDs,leading to clear cell imaging in red fluorescence region.More important,CDs@PEI exhibits much better photostability than commercial red emissive dye(MitoT racker red)in cell fluorescent imaging.Potential application of CDs@PEI on fast staining of cells for clonogenic assay has also been demonstrated.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21975197,21674085,51603165)the Young Talent Fund of University Association for Science and Technology in Shaanxi Province,China(No.20180601)+3 种基金the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(No.2019JM-040)the Key Laboratory Construction Program of Xi’an Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology,China(No.201805056ZD7CG40)the Innovation Capability Support Program of Shaanxi Province,China(Nos.2018PT-28,2019PT-05)school of Materials Science and Engineering,Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Light-Electricity-Heart Energy-coverting Materials and Applications,China(No.GDRGCS2019001).
文摘Aggregation-induced emission(AIE)luminogens(AIEgens)with high brightness in aggregates exhibit great potentials in biological imaging,but these AIEgens are seldom applied in super-resolution biological imaging,especially in the imaging by using the structural illumination microscope(SIM).Based on this consideration,we synthesized the donor-acceptor typed AIEgen of DTPA-BTN,which not only owns high brightness in the near-infrared(NIR)emission region from 600 nm to 1000 nm(photoluminescence quantum yield,PLQYs=11.35%),but also displays excellent photo-stability.In addition,AIE nanoparticles based on 4,7-ditriphenylamine-[1,2,5]-thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine(DTPA-BTN)were also prepared with highly emissive features and excellent biocompatibility.Finally,the developed DTPA-BTN-based AIE nanoparticles were applied in the super-resolution cellular imaging via SIM,where much smaller full width at half-maximum values and high signal to noise ratios were obtained,indicating the superior imaging resolution.The results here imply that highly emissive AIEgens or AIE nanoparticles can be promising imaging agents for super-resolution imaging via SIM.
基金the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.22074011,21922402,and 21727811)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(nos.N2005003 and N2005017)+1 种基金the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program(no.XLYC1802016)the Liaoning Innovative Talents Program in Colleges and Universities(no.ZX20200088).
文摘Two-dimensional(2D)graphitic carbon nitride(g-C_(3)N_(4))possesses a unique geometric configuration featuring a superimposed heterocyclic sp2 carbon and nitrogen framework.Its fluorescence may be attributed to π-π^(*),lone pair(LP)-π^(*),or LP-δ^(*)transitions.So far,the manipulation of its fluorescence emissions is largely unexploited and remains challenging.Herein,for the first time,rare-earth doping into the backbone structure of a g-C_(3)N_(4) framework under microwave agitation endows unprecedented fluorescence nature,with the emergence of two exceptional new fluorescence emissions in the 450-700 nm range.With terbium-doped g-C_(3)N_(4):Tb as a representative,these emissions exhibit distinctive features,that is,very sharp fluorescence peaks with narrow full width at half maximum(FWHM)(peak width at half-height)of<12 nm,quantumyields of 2.3±0.0% and 7.6±0.1% for the new emissions at λ_(ex)/λ_(em)=290/490 nm,and 290/545 nm,respectively;and a large Stokes shift of>200 nm.These features of g-C_(3)N_(4):Tb are most advantageous for applications in various fields,as demonstrated by(1)tracking biodistribution of g-C_(3)N_(4) in vivo with mass spectrometric imaging where the doped terbium serves as a tag,(2)a biometrics study facilitating the identification of an individual through fingerprint,and(3)anti-counterfeiting with g-C_(3)N_(4)∶Tb as a dual-functional marker to facilitate fluorescence and mass spectrometric imaging.
