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Nano Lett. - 澳大利亚麦考瑞大学陆怡青研究员

发布时间: 2020-12-24 来源: ACS

Title: Light-Emitting Diode Excitation for Upconversion Microscopy: A Quantitative Assessment

Abstract: Lanthanide-based upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) generally require high power laser excitation. Here, we report wide-field upconversion microscopy at single-nanoparticle sensitivity using incoherent excitation of a 970 nm light-emitting diode (LED). We show that due to its broad emission spectrum, LED excitation is about 3 times less effective for UCNPs and generates high background compared to laser illumination. To counter this, we use time-gated luminescence detection to eliminate the residual background from the LED source, so that individual UCNPs with high sensitizer (Yb3+) doping and inert shell protection become clearly identified under LED excitation at 1.18 W cm–2, as confirmed by correlated electron microscopy images. Hydrophilic UCNPs are obtained by polysaccharide coating via a facile ligand exchange protocol to demonstrate imaging of cellular uptake using LED excitation. These results suggest a viable approach to bypassing the limitations associated with high-power lasers when applying UCNPs and upconversion microscopy to life science research.

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