Photoluminescent reporters

Luminescence measurements on proteins occupy a large part of the biochemical literature. In what surely was one of the earliest scientific reports of protein photoluminescence uncomplicated by concurrent insect or microorganism luminescence, Beccari (64), in 1746, detected a visible blue phosphorescence from chilled hands when they were brought into a dark room after exposure to sunlight. Stokes (10) remarked that the dark (ultraviolet) portion of the solar spectrum was most efficient in generating fluorescent emission and identified fluorescence from animal matter in 1852. In general, intrinsic protein fluorescence predominantly occurs between 300 nm and 400 nm and is very difficult to detect visually. The first... 

In this study, we report on the GaN nanorod growth by HOMVPE technique with or without using a new precursor, tris(N,N-dimethyldithiocarbamato)gallium(III) (Ga(mDTC)3). The structural and optical properties of GaN nanorods were characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and photoluminescence (PL). 

Since the first report on the photoluminescence of [Au2( X-dppm)2] [2, 3], di- and polynuclear gold(I) phosphine complexes have received considerable attention. 

In addition to the photoluminescence red shifts, broadening of photoluminescence spectra and decrease in the photoluminescence quantum efficiency are reported with increasing temperature. The spectral broadening is due to scattering by coupling of excitons with acoustic and LO phonons [22]. The decrease in the photoluminescence quantum efficiency is due to non-radiative relaxation from the thermally activated state. The Stark effect also produces photoluminescence spectral shifts in CdSe quantum dots [23]. Large red shifts up to 75 meV are reported in the photoluminescence spectra of CdSe quantum dots under an applied electric field of 350 kVcm . Here, the applied electric field decreases or cancels a component in the excited state dipole that is parallel to the applied field the excited state dipole is contributed by the charge carriers present on the surface of the quantum dots. 

The first observations of P-type delayed fluorescence arose from the photoluminescence of organic vapors.<15) It was reported that phenanthrene, anthracene, perylene, and pyrene vapors all exhibited two-component emission spectra. One of these was found to have a short lifetime characteristic of prompt fluorescence while the other was much longer lived. For phenanthrene it was observed that the ratio of the intensity of the longer lived emission to that of the total emission increased with increasing phenanthrene vapor... 

Transient UV-vis absorption spectra showed that theTi02/Ru(II) films yield prompt electron injection upon photolysis ( >108s 1) These same films displayed photoluminescence decays with parallel first- and second-order components, the first-order component having a rate constant of about lxl06s-1. These two sets of results provide further support for the existence of at least two populations of adsorbed Ru(II), one of which injects electrons rapidly and another which does not inject electrons and is thus capable of luminescing on a longer time scale. The second-order component of the luminescence decay is attributed to bimolecular triplet-triplet annihilation of surface-bound Ru(II). (Note that the second-order rate constants reported for luminescence decay have units of s-1 because they are actually values for k2(Asi))... 

Because of the high sensitivity of Ti-containing luminescence centers to their local environments, photoluminescence spectroscopy can be applied to discriminate between various kinds of tetrahedral or near-tetrahedral titanium sites, such as perfectly closed Ti(OSi)4 and defective open Ti(OSi)3(OH) units. Lamberti et al. (49) reported an emission spectrum of TS-1 with a dominant band at 495 nm, with a shoulder at 430 nm when the sample was excited at 250 nm. When the excitation wavelength was 300 nm, the emission spectrum was characterized by a dominant band at 430 nm with a shoulder at 495 nm. These spectra and their dependence on the excitation wavelength clearly indicate the presence of two slightly different families of luminescent Ti species, which differ in their local environments, in agreement with EXAFS measurements carried out on the same samples. 

Recently, Gianotti et al. (96) reported photoluminescence and DRUV spectra of pure siliceous MCM-41 and Ti-MCM-41 containing Ti4+ species anchored to the inner walls of the siliceous MCM-41. They observed complex luminescence signals and concluded that these could be used for a clear distinction of the emission of tetrahedral Ti4+ ions from those of silica surface centers. 

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