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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2022

Adsorption of a water-soluble molecular rotor fluorescent probe on hydrophobic surfaces

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Environmentally sensitive molecular rotors are widely used to probe the local molecular environment in e.g. polymer solutions, polymer glasses, and biological systems. These applications make it important to understand its fluorescence properties in the vicinity of a solid surface, since fluorescence microscopy generically employs cover slides, and measurements are often done in its immediate vicinity. Here, we use a confocal microscope to investigate the fluorescence of (4daspi) in glycerol/water solutions close to the interface using hydrophilic or hydrophobic cover slips. Despite the dye's high solubility in water, the observed lengthening of the fluorescence lifetime close to the hydrophobic surface, implies a surprising affinity of the dye with the surface. Because the homogeneous solution and the refractive index mismatch reduces the optical sectioning power of the microscope, we quantify the affinity with the help of a simple model of the signal vs. depth of focus, exhibiting surface and bulk contributions. The model reduces artefacts due to refractive index mismatch, as supported by Monte Carlo ray tracing simulations.

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hal-03929947 , version 1 (09-01-2023)

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Elham Mirzahossein, Marion Grzelka, Fabrice Guerton, Daniel Bonn, Ross Brown. Adsorption of a water-soluble molecular rotor fluorescent probe on hydrophobic surfaces. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12 (1), pp.22197. ⟨10.1038/s41598-022-26722-w⟩. ⟨hal-03929947⟩
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