Remote-Control Photoswitching Using NIR Light

Carling, Carl-Johan; Boyer, John‐Christopher; Branda, Neil R.

doi:10.1021/ja904746s

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“…or nanoparticles that shift the absorption and the chromic response, acting as reversible metal ion sensors. [192] Complex architectures can be designed to make possible energy transfers between photochromic dyes and other luminescent species such as Quantum Dots, [193] up-converting nanocrystals [194][195][196] or plasmonic metal nanoparticles. [197,198] One nice example is the decoration of CdSe/ZnS QDs with an amphiphilic photochromic polymer coating.…”

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Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic‐Inorganic Materials and their Applications

Parola

Julián‐López

Carlos

et al. 2016

Adv Funct Materials

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Research on hybrid inorganic‐organic materials has experienced an explosive growth since the 1980s, with the expansion of soft inorganic chemistry based processes. Indeed, mild synthetic conditions, low processing temperatures provided by “chimie douce” and the versatility of the colloidal state allow for the mixing of the organic and inorganic components at the nanometer scale in virtually any ratio to produce the so called hybrid materials. Today a high degree of control over both composition and nanostructure of these hybrids can be achieved allowing tunable structure‐property relationships. This, in turn, makes it possible to tailor and fine‐tune many properties (mechanical, optical, electronic, thermal, chemical…) in very broad ranges, and to design specific multifunctional systems for applications. In particular, the field of “Hybrid‐Optics” has been very productive not only scientifically but also in terms of applications. Indeed, numerous optical devices based on hybrids are already in, or very close, to the market. This review describes most of the recent advances performed in this field. Emphasis will be given to luminescent, photochromic, NLO and plasmonic properties. As an outlook we show that the controlled coupling between plasmonics and luminescence is opening a land of opportunities in the field of “Hybrid‐Optics”.

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Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic‐Inorganic Materials and their Applications

Parola

Julián‐López

Carlos

et al. 2016

Adv Funct Materials

251

116

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“…These upconversion nanoparticles are usually made of host lattices of ceramic materials, such as LaF 3 , YF 3 , Y 2 O 3 , LaPO 4 , NaYF 4 embedded with trivalent lanthanide ions like Yb 3þ , Er 3þ , and Tm 3þ and show a unique phenomenon of absorbing NIR light and emitting UV, visible, and NIR light (10). There are a few reports exploiting NIR-to-NIR and NIRto-visible upconversion nanoparticles (UCNs) (11)(12)(13)(14); however, the use of NIR-to-UV UCNs is minimally explored (15)(16)(17).…”

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Remote activation of biomolecules in deep tissues using near-infrared-to-UV upconversion nanotransducers

Jayakumar

Idris

Zhang

2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Controlled activation or release of biomolecules is very crucial in various biological applications. Controlling the activity of biomolecules have been attempted by various means and controlling the activity by light has gained popularity in the past decade. The major hurdle in this process is that photoactivable compounds mostly respond to UV radiation and not to visible or near-infrared (NIR) light. The use of UV irradiation is limited by its toxicity and very low tissue penetration power. In this study, we report the exploitation of the potential of NIR-to-UV upconversion nanoparticles (UCNs), which act as nanotransducers to absorb NIR light having high tissue penetration power and negligible phototoxicity and emit UV light locally, for photoactivation of caged compounds and, in particular, used for photo-controlled gene expression. Both activation and knockdown of GFP was performed in both solution and cells, and patterned activation of GFP was achieved successfully by using upconverted UV light produced by NIR-to-UV UCNs. In-depth photoactivation through tissue phantoms and in vivo activation of caged nucleic acids were also accomplished. The success of this methodology has defined a unique level in the field of photo-controlled activation and delivery of molecules.

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“…72 were demonstrated using two types of photon upconversion nanoparticles NaYF 4 :TmYb (UV irradiation) and NaYF 4 :ErYb (visible irradiation) [106]. It showed a "remote control" photorelease with diarylethene of an unusual structure.…”

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Nanophotochromism

Barachevsky¹

2015

Organic Photonics and Photovoltaics

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Abstract:The review presents the state-of-the-art analysis of investigations in the field of a new line of research of photochromism -nanophotochromism. The design, properties, and possible applications of photochromic nanoparticles prepared by different methods with the use of photochromic substances (aggregates, host-guest, and polymer systems, solid nanoparticles) as well as core-shell photochromic nanostructures based on polymers, silica, quantum dots, doped upconversion nanocrystals, and Ag, Au, etc. nanoparticles have been reviewed. Keywords: photochromism; photochromic nanoparticles; core-shell photochromic nanoparticles design; photoswitching; aggregates; polymer systems, host-guest systems IntroductionPhotochromism is a very important phenomenon for different applications in photonics. The applications are based on reversible phototransformations of photochromic compounds between two states and changes of their properties that accompany these transformations At present, systems and materials containing photochromic nanopatricles have become highly significant. Among these are nanodimensional particles of photochromic substances, including aggregates, and coreshell systems. As a core, inorganic nanoparticles of gold, silver, metal oxides, quantum dots (QD), and also polymeric nanoparticles are used. The shell consists of photochromic molecules or their aggregates connected to a core surface either chemically or physically. Photochromic nanoparticles with photocontrolled fluorescence arouse a special interest because the fluorescence technique is becoming a leading strategy in biological diagnosis, imaging, and detection applications. This paper is a state-of-the-art review which presents results of studying photochromic nanoparticles including author's own data. The results of earlier research are also surveyed in some other reviews [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Photochromic nanoparticles:properties and applications Nanoparticles based on photochromic substances AggregatesThe most known photochromic nanoparticles are aggregates of photochromic organic compounds [14]. These compounds experience reversible photoinduced transformations between two states, Sch. 1A and Sch. 1B. Scheme 1The photoinduced colored merocyanine form B absorbing visible irradiation is formed from a colorless form A as a result of photodissociation of the -C-O-bond of the pyran heterocycle under UV radiation, and this is followed by spontaneous isomerization of the cis-form to the trans one. The colored form B can be converted back to the initial colorless form A upon absorption of visible light or spontaneously during the dark relaxation, which is accelerated by heating.The J-aggregates of nitro-substituted indoline spiropyrans Sch. 2 with long alkyl substituents are of special interest [15].The narrow absorption bands of J-aggregates of these photochromic compounds (Fig. 1) made it possible prepare a specimen of the multilayered optical disk providing freUnauthenticated Download

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Remote-Control Photoswitching Using NIR Light

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Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic‐Inorganic Materials and their Applications

Optical Properties of Hybrid Organic‐Inorganic Materials and their Applications

Remote activation of biomolecules in deep tissues using near-infrared-to-UV upconversion nanotransducers

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