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BODIPY fluorophores are popular functional dyes in a multitude of fields in chemistry, physics, and materials sciences due to their excellent properties such as a good photostability, high fluorescence quantum yields, and almost unlimited possibilities for tailoring their properties by chemical functionalization. In sensing applications, BODIPY dyes are widely employed.
In this work, we present an approach for creating a BODIPY-based pocket-like structure for the recognition of volatile organic compounds (VOC) such as benzene and its derivatives. This may lead to the development of sensing devices for this class of compounds, which receive special attention by environmental chemists and regulatory authorities due to severe adverse effects on humans in particular and the environment in general. The low reactivity of benzene-derived hazardous compounds is thereby a major fact that has to be taken into consideration. While for other reactive gaseous compounds, fluorophore-based detection performance is achieved by the chemical modification of the fluorophore itself, e.g. by bond cleavage, addition, oxidation or reduction reactions; this is not possible for many VOCs. Several metal complexes were described for the sensing of benzene and its derivatives, but no organic dyes such as BODIPYs are known with these capabilities. Our unique concept towards BODIPY-based molecules acting as scavengers for VOCs is supposed to overcome the problem of benzene’s low reactivity by enforcing π-π-interactions between the fluorophore and the volatile aromatic analyte in pocket-like molecular structures.
Covalent modification of surfaces with carbohydrates (glycans) is a prerequisite for a variety of glycomics-based biomedical applications, including functional biomaterials, glycan-arrays, and glycan-based biosensors. The chemistry of glycan immobilization plays an essential role in the bioavailability and function of surface bound carbohydrate moieties. For biomedical applications the stability over time (shelf life) of a glycan-array is a crucial factor. Basic requirements for the production of microarrays are first of all stable signals without any loss of quality. Therefore, the investigation of the shelf life for carbohydrate microarrays is an important part in the development of glycan-arrays.
Motivated by the need of reliable quality control for glycan microarrays, we developed reference arrays using fluorescent model glycans. Since the long term stability of glycan microarrays is a crucial factor for their clinical application the shelf life at different storage conditions of glycan microarrays was studied in detail using the two model glycan compounds.
Herein, we present a shelf life study of model glycan microarrays on epoxy modified glass surfaces over a period of 320 days. This was carried out using different analyzing techniques such as Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Fluorescence Spectroscopy. To analyze and interpret the ToF-SIMS dataset the multivariate technique principal component analysis (PCA) was used. The dependence of the array´s shelf life upon storage conditions was specifically studied.
Aiming at the development of a non-destructive optical measurement methods for the characterization of nano-sized airborne particulate pollutants we performed fluorescence spectroscopic investigations of their relevant emission properties. Here, we present first results from studies of soot particles from synthetic aerosols deposited on PTFE membranes.
Ratiometric green–red fluorescent nanosensors for fluorometrically monitoring pH in the acidic range were designed from 80 nm-sized polystyrene (PS) and silica (SiO2) nanoparticles (NPs), red emissive reference dyes, and a green emissive naphthalimide pH probe, analytically and spectroscopically characterized, and compared regarding their sensing performance in aqueous dispersion and in cellular uptake studies. Preparation of these optical probes, which are excitable by 405 nm laser or LED light sources, involved the encapsulation of the pH-inert red-fuorescent dye Nile Red (NR) in the core of self-made carboxylated PSNPs by a simple swelling procedure and the fabrication of rhodamine B (RhB)-stained SiO2-NPs from a silane derivative of pH-insensitive RhB. Subsequently, the custom-made naphthalimide pH probe, that utilizes a protonation-controlled photoinduced electron transfer process, was covalently attached to the carboxylic acid groups at the surface of both types of NPs. Fluorescence microscopy studies with the molecular and nanoscale optical probes and A549 lung cancer cells confirmed the cellular uptake of all probes and their penetration into acidic cell compartments, i.e., the lysosomes, indicated by the switching ON of the green naphthalimide fluorescence. This underlines their suitability for intracellular pH sensing, with the SiO2-based nanosensor revealing the best performance regarding uptake speed and stability.