NIR organic dyes

Organic dyes like fluorescein and TRITC and the majority of NIR fluorophores suffer from poor photostability [77]. In addition, many NIR dyes, such as clinically approved indocyanine green (ICG) reveal poor thermal stability in aqueous solution [78]. Moreover, the presence of ozone can result in dye decomposition as observed for Cy5 [79]. In the last years, many organic dyes like the Alexa dyes have been... 

The fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of (bio)molecules including quantification as well as biomolecule localization, the measurement of their interplay with one another or with other species, and the assessment of biomolecule function in bioassays as well as in vitro and in vivo plays an ever increasing role in the life sciences. The vast majority of applications exploit extrinsic fluorophores like organic dyes, fluorescent proteins, and also increasingly QDs, as the number of bright intrinsic fluorophores emitting in the visible and NIR is limited. In the near future, the use of fluorophore-doped nanoparticles is also expected to constantly increase, with their applicability in vivo being closely linked to the intensively discussed issue of size-related nanotoxicity [88]. 

Container Dye immersion, NIR, organism contaminants. Demonstrates viability of container... 

Functionalized organic dyes with polyaminocarboxylate have been widely utilized as feasible sensitizers to afford visible region excitation for sensitization of NIR lanthanide luminescence [36 5]. Verhoeven and coworkers [36, 37] first prepared a series of neodymium(III), erbium(III), and ytterbium(III) complexes with polyaminocarboxylate-functionalized fluorescein (21) and eosin (22) as sensitizing chromophores. These complexes show sensitized NIR... 

Abstract Ionic liquids have shown to be excellent solvents for optical investigation of solutes. Transition metal complexes as well as /-element compounds have been studied in ionic liquids. Not only are neat and clean ionic liquids transparent in the NIR and visible region, but the absence of anions with low frequency oscillators such as C-H, N-H and O-H have been found to be favourable when it comes to photoluminescence and future applications can be envisioned. Of fundamental interest is the study of the absorption spectra of organic dyes dissolved in an ionic liquid as the many physicochemical parameters such as the dipolarity and polarizability of the ionic liquid and its hydrogen bond ability can be determined. 

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