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How Gold Particles Suppress Concentration Quenching of Fluorophores Encapsulated in Silica Beads

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Increasing the luminescence of silica particles encapsulating fluorescein by increasing fluorescein concentration is a promising strategy which is unfortunately limited by the phenomenon of self-quenching. In this paper, we demonstrate that this quenching can be almost entirely suppressed by the presence of gold inclusions within silica. Precisely, in core(gold)/shell(polysiloxane) particles incorporating fluorescein molecules, the quantum yield attains 80% of that of isolated fluorescein for an interdye distance of 3 nm whereas it is less than 15% in the absence of gold. From systematic measurements of quantum yield and lifetime, we proved that, contrary to all literature expectations, the reduction of self-quenching does not originate from the enhancement of the radiative decay rate but from a dramatic decrease of the nonradiative one: the presence of metal inclusions impeding energy transfers to fluorescein H-type dimers that act as traps for light.
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hal-00529667 , version 1 (26-10-2010)

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Matteo Martini, Pascal Perriat, Maurizio Montagna, Robert Bernard Pansu, Carine Julien, et al.. How Gold Particles Suppress Concentration Quenching of Fluorophores Encapsulated in Silica Beads. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009, 113 (41), pp.17669-17677. ⟨10.1021/jp9044572⟩. ⟨hal-00529667⟩
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