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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2008

Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of nanoscale near-infrared emissive polymersomes.

Timothy V Duncan, P Peter Ghoroghchian, Igor V Rubtsov, Daniel A Hammer, Michael J Therien

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Sensing membrane stress with near IR-emissive porphyrins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2011
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  15. Photoinitiated destruction of composite porphyrin-protein polymersomes.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2009
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  16. In vivo fluorescence imaging: a personal perspective.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Timothy V DuncanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
P Peter Ghoroghchian
Igor V Rubtsov
Daniel A Hammer
Michael J Therien

Funding

NIR-Emissive Polymersomal Markers for Molecula-Level Detection of MetastasisR01CA115229 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI THERIEN, MICHAEL J · 2006 to 2009
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA115229NCI NIH HHS R01CA115229
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Formed through cooperative self-assembly of amphiphilic diblock copolymers and electronically conjugated porphyrinic near-infrared (NIR) fluorophores (NIRFs), NIR-emissive polymersomes (50 nm to 50 microm diameter polymer vesicles) define a family of organic-based, soft-matter structures that are ideally suited for deep-tissue optical imaging and sensitive diagnostic applications. Here, we describe magic angle and polarized pump-probe spectroscopic experiments that: (i) probe polymersome structure and NIRF organization and (ii) connect emitter structural properties and NIRF loading with vesicle emissive output at the nanoscale. Within polymersome membrane environments, long polymer chains constrain ethyne-bridged oligo(porphinato)zinc(II) based supermolecular fluorophore (PZn n ) conformeric populations and disperse these PZn n species within the hydrophobic bilayer. Ultrafast excited-state transient absorption and anisotropy dynamical studies of NIR-emissive polymersomes, in which the PZn n fluorophore loading per nanoscale vesicle is varied between 0.1-10 mol %, enable the exploration of concentration-dependent mechanisms for nonradiative excited-state decay. These experiments correlate fluorophore structure with its gross spatial arrangement within specific nanodomains of these nanoparticles and reveal how compartmentalization of fluorophores within reduced effective dispersion volumes impacts bulk photophysical properties. As these factors play key roles in determining the energy transfer dynamics between dispersed fluorophores, this work underscores that strategies that modulate fluorophore and polymer structure to optimize dispersion volume in bilayered nanoscale vesicular environments will further enhance the emissive properties of these sensitive nanoscale probes.

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Biocompatible MaterialsButadienesElastomersFluorescent DyesHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsKineticsMetalloporphyrinsModels, MolecularNanoparticlesPolyethylene GlycolsPolymersSpectroscopy, Near-InfraredThermodynamicsZincBiocompatible MaterialsButadienesElastomersFluorescent DyesMetalloporphyrinspolybutadienePolyethylene GlycolsPolymersZinc

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PMID18611010
PMCPMC2737527

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