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Organic luminophores with long wavelenght emission
Kolaříková, Adéla ; Kratochvíl, Matouš (referee) ; Vala, Martin (advisor)
This bachelor thesis studies the possibility of achieving intense fluorescence in the red region of the spectrum using Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) in nanoparticles. First, the optical properties of organic molecules that could be suitable for the creation of a so-called host-guest (HG) system consisting of an acceptor-donor pair were studied. The molecules studied were based on derivatives of diphenylstilbene containing the electron-donor group diphenylamine (DPA-DPS), which is linked to a differing electron-acceptor group via a -conjugated double bond system. The acceptor groups used, i.e., indandione (-IOO), vinyl ( V) and di(methoxycarbonyl)vinyl (-V(COOMe)2), differ from each other in structure and polarity, which was reflected by a change in the position of the fluorescence spectrum. In the HG systems studied, DPA-DPS-IOO always served as the guest (G1) and DPA-DPS-V and DPA-DPS-V(COOMe)2 always served as the host (H1 or H2). Nanoparticles from these substances (G1H1 and G1H2) were prepared by the nanoprecipitation method. FRET was observed for both of these systems. Upon excitation of the matrix, the energy was transferred to the guest G1, which subsequently fluoresced in the long-wavelength region. Furthermore, an increase in the quantum yield of the guest fluorescence was also observed for the nanoparticles formed from the G1H2 system, from 7% (powder) and 3.1% (nanoparticles) to 14% compared to both the powder form and nanoparticles formed from the guest alone. No increase in the quantum yield of guest fluorescence was observed for the nanoparticles of the G1H1 system. The results indicated that FRET can be an effective tool in developing nanoparticles exhibiting intense long-wavelength fluorescence for imaging.
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