Comparison of the photoluminescence properties of semiconductor quantum dots and non-blinking diamond nanoparticles. Observation of the diffusion of diamond nanoparticles in living cells. - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the European Optical Society : Rapid publications Année : 2009

Comparison of the photoluminescence properties of semiconductor quantum dots and non-blinking diamond nanoparticles. Observation of the diffusion of diamond nanoparticles in living cells.

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Long-term observations of photoluminescence at the single-molecule level were until recently very diffcult, due to the photobleaching of organic fluorophore molecules. Although inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals can overcome this diffculty showing very low photobleaching yield, they suffer from photoblinking. A new marker has been recently introduced, relying on diamond nanoparticles containing photoluminescent color centers. In this work we compare the photoluminescence of single quantum dots (QDs) to the one of nanodiamonds containing a single-color center. Contrary to other markers, photoluminescent nanodiamonds present a perfect photostability and no photoblinking. At saturation of their excitation, nanodiamonds photoluminescence intensity is only three times smaller than the one of QDs. Moreover, the bright and stable photoluminescence of nanodiamonds allows wide field observations of single nanoparticles motion. We demonstrate the possibility of recording the tra jectory of such single particle in culture cells.
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hal-00375681 , version 1 (15-04-2009)

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Orestis Faklaris, Damien Garrot, Vandana Joshi, Jean-Paul Boudou, Thierry Sauvage, et al.. Comparison of the photoluminescence properties of semiconductor quantum dots and non-blinking diamond nanoparticles. Observation of the diffusion of diamond nanoparticles in living cells.. Journal of the European Optical Society : Rapid publications, 2009, 4, pp.09035. ⟨10.2971/jeos.2009.09035⟩. ⟨hal-00375681⟩
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