Single bovine serum albumin molecule can hold plural blue-emissive gold nanoclusters: A quantitative study with two-photon excitation

Hamza Al Kindi, Ahmed Mohamed, Shinji Kajimoto, Nurbosyn Zhanpeisov, Hideyuki Horino, Yutaka Shibata, Izabela Irena Rzeznicka, Hiroshi Fukumura

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Two-photon luminescence properties of gold nanoclusters (Au8NCs) encapsulated in bovine serum albumin (BSA) were investigated. A new synthesis protocol is reported to control the number of Au8 clusters in one BSA. Both one- and two-photon excitation of BSA with multiple Au8NCs gave an identical blue luminescence. The two-photon absorption (TPA) cross-section value for BSA with one Au8NCs was obtained to be 190 GM (Goeppert-Mayer) and 540 GM for BSA with three Au8NCs, at 740 nm excitation wavelength. This study shows that BSA with multiple Au8NCs may be used as a biocompatible luminescence probe for two-photon in-vivo imaging.

本文言語English
ページ(範囲)168-174
ページ数7
ジャーナルJournal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
357
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2018 4月 15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 化学 (全般)
  • 化学工学(全般)
  • 物理学および天文学(全般)

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