Revealing the photophysics of gold-nanobeacons via time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Guoke  Wei; Dorin Simionesie; Jan Sefcik; Jens U. Sutter; Qingjiang Xue; Jun Yu; Jinliang Wang; David J.S. Birch; Yu Chen

doi:10.1364/OL.40.005738

Revealing the photophysics of gold-nanobeacons via time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Guoke Wei, Dorin Simionesie, Jan Sefcik, Jens U. Sutter, Qingjiang Xue, Jun Yu, Jinliang Wang, David J.S. Birch, Yu Chen

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We demonstrate that time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate the conformation states of hairpin DNA on the surface of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and energy transfer processes in Au-nanobeacons. Long-range fluorescence quenching of Cy5 by AuNPs has been found to be in good agreement with electrodynamics modelling. Moreover, time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) is shown to be promising for real-time monitoring of the hybridization kinetics of Au-nanobeacons, with up to 60% increase in decay time component and 300% increase in component fluorescence fraction observed. Our results also indicate the importance of the stem and spacer designs for the performance of Au-nanobeacons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5738–5741
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	40
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.005738
Publication status	Published - 9 Dec 2015

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Au-nanobeacons
gold nanobeacons
fluorescence

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Revealing the photophysics of gold-nanobeacons via time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

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