近红外聚乙烯醇荧光高分子材料的制备及性能

以一种方酸菁染料、水溶性石墨烯和聚乙烯醇为原料,设计合成了在近红外区具有强荧光(660~665 nm)特性及良好的光热稳定性的方酸菁/聚乙烯醇二元和方酸菁/石墨烯/聚乙烯醇三元高分子材料;与在水中相比,方酸菁染料在聚乙烯醇中的最大紫外-可见吸收和荧光波长红移,荧光强度和光稳定性大幅提高;石墨烯的存在增强了材料的光稳定性。     

吲哚七甲川类荧光探针在生物体应用的研究现状

菁染料是一种商品化的近红外荧光染料, 其光谱范围位于近红外区域, 此光谱区域内生物基体光吸收或荧光强度较小, 因此利用菁染料对生物体进行成像, 可以降低背景干扰. 吲哚七甲川菁染料是一类具有代表性的菁染料, 其由吲哚杂环、七甲川链和N-取代基侧链组成, 由于具有溶解性好, 最大吸收波长可调, 摩尔消光系数大等优良的光学性质, 被广泛用于肿瘤靶向治疗、蛋白标记、痕量金属离子检测等生物方面. 以吲哚七甲川为母体, 通过向母体中引入活性基团或改变它们的结构, 使探针具有不同的功能, 这已成为生物领域荧光成像的研究热点. 分别从检测金属阳离子、pH变化、小分子和靶向标记肿瘤细胞、蛋白质等方面综述了近年来用于生物体荧光成像的吲哚七甲川类荧光探针的研究进展, 其中也对荧光探针在生物体内(模型)分布、光学成像及代谢方面进行了介绍, 最后讨论了这类荧光探针存在的问题及发展趋势.     

近红外荧光染料的结构、性质及生物荧光成像应用

近红外荧光生物成像技术由于具有深的组织穿透性、低背景荧光干扰、最小生物样本光损伤等特点引起人们越来越多的关注。开发高荧光效率、低毒性的近红外荧光染料是近红外荧光成像技术发展的关键所在。本文综述了五类主要的有机近红外荧光染料(菁类、BODIPY类、罗丹明类、方酸类、卟啉类)的研究进展,重点分析其结构与光学性质等构效关系,为近红外荧光染料的设计和制备提供指导。另外,总结了有机近红外荧光材料功能化修饰的主要方法以改善生物相容性、靶向性能等,最后对近红外荧光染料存在的主要问题以及未来的热点方向进行了分析和展望。     

方酸菁染料在有机太阳能电池中的研究进展

方酸菁作为一种重要的菁类染料,由于它在可见-近红外区有强烈的吸收和发射性质,以及良好的光热稳定性,使它在太阳能电池的研究中越来越受到重视.随着理论的不断完善,以及太阳能电池制作技术的成熟,方酸菁将在这一领域继续得到快速发展.综述了近年来方酸菁染料在染料敏化太阳能电池和本体异质结太阳能电池中的应用,从机理角度着重讨论了染料分子结构等因素对电池性能的影响,并提出了未来的研究方向.     

吲哚菁绿在生物成像与医学工程中的应用进展

吲哚菁绿(ICG)是一种阳离子型花菁类染料,具有毒性低、亲和力高、荧光发射位于近红外区等优点。因此,作为一种可临床使用的近红外有机荧光染料,其已被广泛应用于生物成像、疾病诊断等领域。本文从吲哚菁绿的临床应用和肿瘤诊断治疗展开论述,通过实例全面介绍ICG的相关信息。     

近红外荧光探针及其在生物分析中的应用进展

本文评述了自1999年以来近红外荧光探针和标记试剂及其在生物分析中的应用进展。包括:菁染料、噻嗪和噁嗪染料、含四吡咯基团染料(酞菁和卟啉)、罗丹明类、BODIPY、稀土离子配合物和量子点等。描述了它们在荧光测定和毛细管分离荧光检测以及免疫荧光分析方面的应用。引用文献75篇。     

基于方酸菁类小分子给体与富勒烯受体材料的有机光伏电池研究进展

方酸菁类小分子材料具有合成路线简单、吸收系数高、能带隙可调、可见-近红外区吸收强烈的性质以及光、热稳定性高的特点,被认为是一类非常有应用前景的有机光伏电池材料.其作为给体材料,结合富勒烯受体材料的有机光伏电池能量转化效率已经超过了8%.综述了近年来基于方酸菁类小分子给体材料和富勒烯受体材料的有机光伏电池的研究进展,系统分析了方酸菁类小分子的分子结构、薄膜形貌和分子聚集等对器件光伏性能的影响.为方酸菁类小分子材料在有机光伏电池方面的应用拓宽了思路,并对以后的研究提出了展望.     

一种近红外花菁染料的合成及其应用于生物大分子的测定

光谱性质;蛋白质;核酸测定;一种近红外花菁染料的合成及其应用于生物大分子的测定     

方酸染料在离子识别中的研究

作为一种新型的有机功能染料,方酸染料正引起化学界的极大兴趣.由于其特殊的D-A-D结构,方酸染料在可见一近红外区有强烈的吸收和荧光发射,因而越来越多地被应用在离子检测中.本文综述了近期方酸染料化学传感器的发展和应用,分别介绍了方酸染料在阳离子识别和阴离子识别中的分子设计、作用机理及应用,重点综述了方酸染料对汞、铜和锌等...     

甲川链修饰菁染料的合成研究进展

在小分子荧光探针中,菁染料由于其良好的光学特性,在成像及生物传感等领域具有广泛应用.甲川链的功能化可以显著提高染料的稳定性并改变其光物理性能和生物选择性,已成为近年来菁染料结构修饰的热点.总结了甲川链修饰菁染料的合成方法,根据甲川链取代基的不同来源,按照甲川链不同长度对甲川链修饰菁染料的研究进展分别进行综述.     

Rational design of small indolic squaraine dyes with large two-photon absorption cross section

Small organic dyes with large two-photon absorption (TPA) cross sections (δ) are more desirable in many applications compared with large molecules. Herein, we proposed a facile theoretical method for the fast screening of small organic molecules as potential TPA dyes. This method is based on a theoretical analysis to the natural transition orbitals (NTOs) directly associated with the TPA transition. Experimental results on the small indolic squaraine dyes (ISD) confirmed that their TPA cross sections is strongly correlated to the delocalization degree of the NTOs of the S₂ excited states. Aided by this simple and intuitive method, we have successfully designed and synthesized a small indolic squaraine dye (ISD) with a remarkable δ value above 8000 GM at 780 nm. The ISD dye also exhibits a high singlet oxygen generation quantum yield about 0.90. The rationally designed TPA dye was successfully applied in both two-photon excited fluorescence cell imaging and in vivo cerebrovascular blood fluid tracing.     

Effective Amyloid Defibrillation by Polyhydroxyl‐Substituted Squaraine Dyes

With an objective to develop β‐amyloid destabilizing agents, we have investigated the interactions of a few water‐soluble near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing squaraine dyes 1 – 3 with lysozyme and its amyloid aggregates through photophysical and biophysical techniques. These dyes exhibited strong interactions with lysozyme and β‐amyloids in addition to serum albumins as evidenced by the absorption and emission changes. The interactions were found to be spontaneous with association constant values in the range of approximately 10⁴–10⁵ m ^?1, as confirmed through half‐reciprocal analysis and isothermal calorimetric measurements. Uniquely, such effective interactions of the dyes have led to the complete disassembly of the β‐amyloid fibrillar structures to form spherical particles approximately 350 nm in size, as confirmed through photophysical, thioflavin assay, circular dichroism (CD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), TEM, and selected‐area electron diffraction (SAED) techniques. These results demonstrate that the squaraine dyes 1 – 3 under investigation act as effective protein‐labelling and destabilizing agents of the protein amyloidogenesis.     

Enhanced diradical nature in oxyallyl derivatives leads to near infra red absorption: a comparative study of the squaraine and croconate dyes using computational techniques

We apply many criteria to estimate the diradical character of the ground state singlets of several oxyallyl derivatives. This is carried out as the oxyallyl derivatives like squaraine and croconate dyes can be represented by both mesoionic and diradical formulas, the domination of which would characterize its lowest energy transition. One criterion applied is the singlet-triplet gap, which is known to be inversely proportional to the diradical character. Another criterion is the occupation number; this is determined for the symmetry broken state of the molecules in the unrestricted formalism, and the difference of occupation in the HOMO and LUMO is related to the diradical character. The diradical character of all of the croconates and few squaraines is estimated to be large. All of these have absorption above 750 nm and can be classified as near infrared (NIR) dyes, leading to the inference that NIR absorptions in these molecules are largely due to the dominance of the diradical character. To understand the reliability of the DFT methods for the absorption property predictions of these molecules, TD-DFT studies to calculate the vertical excitation energies have been carried out, using the B3LYP/ BLYP exchange correlation functionals and the LB94 asymptotic functional with and without the inclusion of solvent. The deviations, in both the squaraine series (average lower diradical character), are found to be systematic, and with the inclusion of the solvent in the calculation, the deviations decrease. The best least-squares fit with the experimentally observed values using B3LYP /6-311G(d, p) for the symmetric squaraines yields an R value of 0.92 and, for the unsymmetric squaraines, an R value of 0.936. With inclusion of the solvent, the R value is 0.96 for the symmetric squaraines and 0.961 for the unsymmetric squaraines, indicating that these DFT functionals with linear scaling may be used to study these systems. The croconate dyes, however, have larger deviation from the experimentally observed values in all of the functionals studied even after inclusion of the solvent effects. The deviations are also not systematic. The deviation with respect to the experiment in this case is attributed to the average larger diradical character in this series.     

Solvent Induced Helix Folding of Defined Indolenine Squaraine Oligomers

A protecting group strategy was employed to synthesise a series of indolenine squaraine dye oligomers up to the nonamer. The longer oligomers show a distinct solvent dependence of the absorption spectra, that is, either a strong blue shift or a strong red shift of the lowest energy bands in the near infrared spectral region. This behaviour is explained by exciton coupling theory as being due to H- or J-type coupling of transition moments. The H-type coupling is a consequence of a helix folding in solvents with a small Hansen dispersity index. DOSY NMR, small angle neutron scattering (SANS), quantum chemical and force field calculations agree upon a helix structure with an unusually large pitch and open voids that are filled with solvent molecules, thereby forming a kind of clathrate. The thermodynamic parameters of the folding process were determined by temperature dependent optical absorption spectra.     

Adsorption morphology,light absorption,and sensitization yields for squaraine dyes on SnS2 surfaces

The sensitization properties of two squaraine dyes adsorbed onto the van der Waals surface of n-doped tin disulfide single crystals were studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM), vis-NIR absorption spectroscopy, and photoelectrochemical techniques. Quantum yield per absorbed photon (QYAP) values of near unity were observed for submonolayer coverages of 2,4-bis(4-(N-methyl-N-hexylamino)phenyl)squaraine (1-6SQ) in aqueous electrolyte when a sufficiently positive bias was applied, demonstrating the advantages of SnS(2) as a photoanode for fundamental studies of dye sensitization. Islandlike and microcrystalline morphologies, associated with aggregate formation and revealed by AFM, could be correlated with spectral shifts in both the absorbance and photoaction spectra. A related dye, 2,4-bis(4-(N,N-dimethyl)-2-hydroxyphenyl)squaraine (1-1OHSQ), at similar coverages showed slightly lower QYAP, ascribed to a recombination path due to the different aggregate structures.     

Squaraine Dyes as Fluorescent Turn-on Probes for Mucins: A Step Toward Selectivity†

Mucins are a family of long polymeric glycoproteins which can be overexpressed in several types of cancers, and over recent years, great attention was addressed to identify mucins as an important biomarker of adverse prognosis. Fluorometric detection mediated by fluorescent probes could represent a winning strategy in the early diagnosis of different pathologies. Among promising biological fluorescent probes, squaraines are gaining particular attention, thanks to their sharp and intense absorption and emission in the NIR region. In this contribution, three squaraine dyes bearing different substituents and with different lipophilicity have been investigated for their ability to detect mucin. The turn-on response upon the addition of mucin has been investigated by means of absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy. After a preliminary screening, the squaraine (S6) bearing bromine as a substituent and C4 aliphatic chains showed the highest fluorescence turn-on and highest affinity for mucin than albumin. To further highlight the selectivity of S6 for mucin, the fluorescence response has been evaluated in the presence of serum and site-specific proteins different than albumin. Absorption spectroscopy was used to characterize the binding mechanism of squaraine to mucin.     

Thermally-activated chemiluminescent squaraine rotaxane endoperoxide with green emission

A squaraine rotaxane endoperoxide with a truncated squaraine chromophore undergoes a cycloreversion reaction and emits green light that can be transferred to red acceptor dyes. The results demonstrate that chemiluminescence emission for squaraine rotaxane endoperoxides comes from the excited squaraine inside the rotaxane.     

Evaluation of the detection of biomolecules in capillary electrophoresis by contactless conductivity measurement

The sensitivity of contactless conductivity detection to amino acids, peptides and proteins in CE was studied for BGE solutions of different pH values. The LOD and analytical characteristics were compared for acidic and basic conditions and better results were in most cases found for buffers of low pH values. Linear dynamic ranges varied between two orders of magnitude for amino acids and peptides and three orders of magnitude for larger proteins. The concentration detection limits were found to be between 1.2 and 7.5 microM for the amino acids tested and for the larger molecules they varied between 2.6 microM for leucine enkephalin and 0.2 microM for HSA when using a buffer at pH 2.1.     

A graphene binding-promoted fluorescence enhancement for bovine serum albumin recognition

Chemically converted graphene (CCG) was found to greatly enhance the fluorescence response of squaraine (SQ) dyes to bovine serum albumin (BSA). Addition of BSA to the SQ-CCG solution, where squaraine dyes absorbed on the CCG surface, raised the fluorescence intensity by as much as 80 fold.