Water-Soluble Cationic Eu3+-Metallopolymer with High Quantum Yield and Sensitivity for Intracellular Temperature Sensing

Lanthanide-based (Ln3+) luminescent materials are ideal candidates for use in fluorescence intracellular temperature sensing. However, it remains a great challenge to obtain a Ln3+-ratiometric fluorescence thermometer with high sensitivity and quantum yield in an aqueous environment. Herein, a cationic Eu3+-metallopolymer was synthesized via the coordination of Eu(TTA)3·2H2O with an AIE active amphipathic polymer backbone that contains APTMA ((3-acrylamidopropyl) trimethylammonium) and NIPAM (N-isopropylacrylamide) units, which can self-assemble into nanoparticles in water solution with APTMA and NIPAM as the hydrophilic shell. This polymer exhibited highly efficient dual-emissive white-light emission (Φ = 34.3%). Particularly, when the temperature rises, the NIPAM units will transform from hydrophilic to hydrophobic in the spherical core of the nanoparticle, while the VTPE units are moved from inside the nanoparticle to the shell, activating its nonradiative transition channel and thereby decreasing its energy transfer to Eu3+ centers, endowing the Eu3+-metallopolymer with an extremely high temperature sensing sensitivity within the physiological temperature range. Finally, the real-time monitoring of the intracellular temperature variation is further conducted.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 15(2023), 13 vom: 05. Apr., Seite 17211-17221

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Feng, Weixu [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Yujuan [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Hongxia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aggregation-induced emission
Eu3+-metallopolymer
Journal Article
Self-assembly
Temperature sensing
White-light emission

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.04.2023

Date Revised 06.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.3c00478

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353657476