Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence from Silver Nanowires with High Aspect Ratio on Glass Slides for Biosensing Applications

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2015-01-08

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Abel, Biebele
Coskun, Sahin
Mohammed, Muzaffer
Williams, Richard
Ünalan, Hüsnü Emrah
Aslan, Kadir

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High enhancement of fluorescence emission, improved fluorophore photostability, and significant reduction of fluorescence lifetimes have been obtained from high aspect ratio (>100) silver (Ag) nanowires. These quantities are found to depend on the surface loading of Ag nanowires on glass slides, where the enhancement of fluorescence emission increases with the density of nanowires. The surface loading dependence was attributed to the creation of intense electric fields around the network of Ag nanowires and to the coupling of fluorophore excited states that takes place efficiently at a distance of 10 nm from the surface of nanowires, which was confirmed by theoretical calculations. The enhancement of fluorescence emission of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) was assessed by fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to demonstrate the potential of high aspect ratio Ag nanowires. Fluorescence enhancement factors exceeding 14 were observed on Ag nanowires with high loading by FLIM. The photostability of FITC was the highest on nanowires with medium loading under continuous laser excitation for 10 min because of the significant reduction in the fluorescence lifetime of FITC on these surfaces. These results clearly demonstrate the potential of Ag nanowires in metal-enhanced fluorescence-based applications of biosensing on planar surfaces and cellular imaging.

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General Energy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37853

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C

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https://doi.org/10.1021/jp509040f

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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Article

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B. Abel, S. Coskun, M. Mohammed, R. Williams, H. E. Ünalan, and K. Aslan, “Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence from Silver Nanowires with High Aspect Ratio on Glass Slides for Biosensing Applications,” JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, pp. 675–684, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37853.