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Beilstein J Nanotechnol. 2016 Dec 14;7:1991-1999. doi: 10.3762/bjnano.7.190. eCollection 2016.

A dioxaborine cyanine dye as a photoluminescence probe for sensing carbon nanotubes.

Beilstein journal of nanotechnology

Mohammed Al Araimi, Petro Lutsyk, Anatoly Verbitsky, Yuri Piryatinski, Mykola Shandura, Aleksey Rozhin

Affiliations

  1. Nanotechnology Research Group, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B4 7ET Birmingham, UK; Engineering Department, Al Musanna College of Technology, Muladdah Musanna, P.O. Box 191, P.C. 314, Sultanate of Oman.
  2. Nanotechnology Research Group, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B4 7ET Birmingham, UK; Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 46, prospekt Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine.
  3. Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 46, prospekt Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine.
  4. Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 5, Murmanska str., 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine.
  5. Engineering Department, Al Musanna College of Technology, Muladdah Musanna, P.O. Box 191, P.C. 314, Sultanate of Oman.

PMID: 28144547 PMCID: PMC5238636 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.7.190

Abstract

The unique properties of carbon nanotubes have made them the material of choice for many current and future industrial applications. As a consequence of the increasing development of nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes show potential threat to health and environment. Therefore, development of efficient method for detection of carbon nanotubes is required. In this work, we have studied the interaction of indopentamethinedioxaborine dye (DOB-719) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using absorption and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. In the mixture of the dye and the SWNTs we have revealed new optical features in the spectral range of the intrinsic excitation of the dye due to resonance energy transfer from DOB-719 to SWNTs. Specifically, we have observed an emergence of new PL peaks at the excitation wavelength of 735 nm and a redshift of the intrinsic PL peaks of SWNT emission (up to 40 nm) in the near-infrared range. The possible mechanism of the interaction between DOB-719 and SWNTs has been proposed. Thus, it can be concluded that DOB-719 dye has promising applications for designing efficient and tailorable optical probes for the detection of SWNTs.

Keywords: dioxaborine cyanine dye; photoluminescence; resonant energy transfer; sensor; single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)

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