A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes

Petro Lutsyk; Raz Arif; Jan Hruby; Anatolii Bukivskyi; Olexander Vinijchuk; Mykola Shandura; Viktor Yakubovskyi; Yuri Kovtun; Graham A Rance; Michael Fay; Yuri Piryatinski; Oleksiy Kachkovsky; Anatoli Verbitsky; Aleksey Rozhin

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.28

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- A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 1, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 46, prospekt Nauky, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
  2.School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, B47ET Birmingham, UK
  3.Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Sulaimani, P.O. Box 334, Sulaimani, Iraq-Kurdistan Region
  4.Brno University of Technology, CEITEC BUT, Technická 3058/10, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  5.Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 5 Murmanska str., 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
  6.School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
  7.Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
- Author bio：
  
  A Rozhin, Email: a.rozhin@aston.ac.uk
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.28
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- Published：2016-03，
  
  Published Online：26 September 2015，
  
  Received：28 July 2015，
  
  Revised：11 September 2015，
  
  Accepted：22 September 2015
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Lutsyk, P. et al. A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16028 (2016).
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Lutsyk, P. et al. A sensing mechanism for the detection of carbon nanotubes using selective photoluminescent probes based on ionic complexes with organic dyes. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16028 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.28.

摘要

Abstract

The multifunctional properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) make them a powerful platform for unprecedented innovations in a variety of practical applications. As a result of the surging growth of nanotechnology

nanotubes present a potential problem as an environmental pollutant

and as such

an efficient method for their rapid detection must be established. Here

we propose a novel type of ionic sensor complex for detecting CNTs – an organic dye that responds sensitively and selectively to CNTs with a photoluminescent signal. The complexes are formed through Coulomb attractions between dye molecules with uncompensated charges and CNTs covered with an ionic surfactant in water. We demonstrate that the photoluminescent excitation of the dye can be transferred to the nanotubes

resulting in selective and strong amplification (up to a factor of 6) of the light emission from the excitonic levels of CNTs in the near-infrared spectral range

as experimentally observed via excitation-emission photoluminescence (PL) mapping. The chirality of the nanotubes and the type of ionic surfactant used to disperse the nanotubes both strongly affect the amplification; thus

the complexation provides sensing selectivity towards specific CNTs. Additionally

neither similar uncharged dyes nor CNTs covered with neutral surfactant form such complexes. As model organic molecules

we use a family of polymethine dyes with an easily tailorable molecular structure and

consequently

tunable absorbance and PL characteristics. This provides us with a versatile tool for the controllable photonic and electronic engineering of an efficient probe for CNT detection.

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Keywords

carbon nanotubesionic surfactantorganic dyephotoluminescence sensor

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