ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces2008
Metal-enhanced Intrinsic Fluorescence of Proteins on Silver Nanostructured Surfaces towards Label-Free Detection.
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- Hybrid silver nanoparticle/conjugated polyelectrolyte nanocomposites exhibiting controllable metal-enhanced fluorescence.Scientific reports · 2014Article
- On the fluorescence of luminol in a silver nanoparticles complex.Journal of fluorescence · 2013Article
- Feasibility of Using Bimetallic Plasmonic Nanostructures to Enhance the Intrinsic Emission of Biomolecules.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2011Article
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Abstract
In recent years metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) using silver particles has been reported for a number of fluorophores emitting at visible wavelengths. However it was generally thought that silver particles would always quench fluorescence at shorter wavelengths. We now report the observation of metal-enhanced fluorescence of the tryptophan analogue N-acetyl-L-tryptophanamide (NATA) on silver nano-structured surfaces. NATA is a model for the intrinsic tryptophan emission from proteins. We have also studied the effects of silver nanostructures on the emission of N-acetyl-L-tyrosinamide (NATA-tyr). In the case of NATA we observed increased emission, decrease in fluorescence lifetimes, and increase in photostability when NATA was embedded in 15 nm thick spin-casted poly(vinyl alcohol) film on silver nanostructured surfaces. We have also investigated the effects of silver nanostructures on the emission from thin poly(vilnyl alcohol) films containing NATA-tyr. However, we have observed no increase in fluorescence signal for NATA-tyr on silver nanostructures. To understand these results we performed numerical calculations using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) technique to model a tryptophan-wavelength dipole near a spherical silver particle. Our calculations reveal an enhancement of the power of the radiated emission by the excited-state fluorophore in proximity to a 100 nm silver nanoparticle covering the emission spectra of NATA and NATA-tyr. These calculations show a clear wavelength dependence with the specific spectral region displaying low-enhancement at the shorter NATA-tyr wavelength and higher enhancement at NATA emission wavelength. Our FDTD calculations also reveal that excited fluorophores in the near-field of a 100 nm silver nanoparticle can induce enhancement fields of varying degrees of the intensity of the near-fields around the particle that is dependent on the wavelength of the emission. We believe this enhanced near-fields play a role in our observation of MEF from metal surfaces. The enhanced emission of NATA on silver nanostructures suggests that the extension of MEF to the UV region opens new possibilities to study tryptophan-containing proteins without labeling with longer wavelength fluorophores towards label free detection of biomolecules.
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