Affiliation:
1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate School of Engineering Kobe University 1‐1 Rokkodai, Nada Kobe 657–8501 Japan
2. Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Graduate School of Engineering Kobe University 1‐1 Rokkodai, Nada Kobe 657–8501 Japan
Abstract
AbstractInorganic nanoparticles with multiple functions have been attracting attention as multimodal nanoprobes in bioimaging, biomolecule detection, and medical diagnosis and treatment. A drawback of conventional metallic nanoparticle‐based nanoprobes is the Ohmic losses that lead to fluorescence quenching of attached molecules and local heating under light irradiation. Here, metal‐free nanoprobes capable of scattering/fluorescence dual‐mode imaging are developed. The nanoprobes are composed of a silicon nanosphere core having efficient Mie scattering in the visible to near infrared range and a fluorophore doped silica shell. The dark‐field scattering and photoluminescence images/spectra for nanoprobes made from different size silicon nanospheres and different kinds of fluorophores are studied by single particle spectroscopy. The fluorescence spectra are strongly modified by the Mie modes of a silicon nanosphere core. By comparing scattering and fluorescence spectra and calculated Purcell factors, the fluorescence enhancement factor is quantitatively discussed. In vitro scattering/fluorescence imaging studies on human cancer cells demonstrate that the developed nanoparticles work as scattering/fluorescence dual‐mode imaging nanoprobes.
Subject
Biomaterials,Biotechnology,General Materials Science,General Chemistry
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