INRODUCTIONInterest in the use of nanotechnology is currently shifting to the areas of medicine and biochemistry; a search for methods to improve the sensitivity of lumi nescent analysis and widen the spectral range of lumi nescent labels by the production and use of new nano particles (NPs) is under way. One of the lines of inquiry is investigating the self formation of beta diketone complexes of lanthanide NPs, where the lumines cence sensitization of Eu(III), Sm(III), Tb(III), and other luminescent ions occurs through the energy absorption by the excess of the Gd(III), La(III), Lu(III), and other ion complexes that are not lumi nescent in these conditions. This phenomenon was discovered by Poluektov and coworkers in 1964 [1] and was used by them to increase the sensitivity of the luminescent detection of Eu and Sm. In 1987 these studies were taken up in China by the group of profes sor Yang (J. Yang) [2] and a year later by professor Y. X. Ci and coworkers [3]. The use of Triton X 100 neutral detergent for stabilizing the formed NPs in solution was a new aspect of their approach.The term cofluorescence effect was proposed by Ci [3] for the phenomenon under investigation, and in 1990 Yang and coworkers [4] proposed the term colu minescence to describe the same phenomenon. Both terms were actively used in the scientific literature. We believe that the term cofluorescence is not suitable for the system because in the case under consideration the luminescence of europium or other lanthanide ions is enhanced, which is not related to fluorescence according to the dominating terminology in scientific literature. We consider the term suggested by Yang (columinescence) more appropriate for this phenom enon [4]. The phenomenon of the columinescence of Ln(III) complexes was widely used starting from the 1990s in both luminescent analysis in rare earth metal chemistry and in immunoanalysis with an Ln label, in particular in time resolved analysis [5,6].
PREPARATION OF NPs FROM THE DIKETONATE OF TRIVALENT METALS: SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF NPsNP formation from metal ion complexes occurs in water from different beta diketones and synergistic agents. Diketones are poorly soluble in water, and some are insoluble. NPs are formed when the solution of the salts of trivalent metals is added to the aqueous solution of beta diketone and synergistic agent; with this it was shown that the best reproducibility took place when solutions of equal volumes with the dou bled concentration of beta diketone and the synergis tic agent were combined for NP preparation in com parison with the method when a small volume of a highly concentrated metal ion solution was added to the required diketone solution. The NP formation from complexes in aqueous solutions is a result of the higher hydrophobicity of the forming complexes in Abstract-A brief review on the regularities of nanoparticle (NP) formation in aqueous solution from Ln, Y, Al, Sc, and In diketonates, which capture fluorescent dye molecules upon formation, is presented. The inten sive sensi...