Open AccessGreen emitted CdSe@ZnS quantum dots for FLIM and STED imaging applications
Author(s) -
Mengjie Zhao,
Shuai Ye,
Xiao Peng,
Jun Song,
Junle Qu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of innovative optical health sciences/journal of innovation in optical health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1793-5458
pISSN - 1793-7205
DOI - 10.1142/s1793545819400030
Subject(s) - sted microscopy , quantum dot , fluorescence , photobleaching , photoluminescence , stimulated emission , quantum yield , laser , materials science , optoelectronics , resolution (logic) , luminescence , microscopy , optics , chemistry , nanotechnology , physics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Inorganic quantum dots (QDs) have excellent optical properties, such as high fluorescence intensity, excellent photostability and tunable emission wavelength, etc., facilitating them to be used as labels and probes for bioimaging. In this study, CdSe@ZnS QDs are used as probes for Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope (FLIM) and stimulated emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy imaging. The emission peak of CdSe@ZnS QDs centered at 526[Formula: see text]nm with a narrow width of 19[Formula: see text]nm and the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) was 64%. The QDs presented excellent anti-photobleaching property which can be irradiated for 400[Formula: see text]min by STED laser with 39.8[Formula: see text]mW. The lateral resolution of 42.0[Formula: see text]nm is demonstrated for single QDs under STED laser (27.5[Formula: see text]mW) irradiation. Furthermore, the CdSe@ZnS QDs were for the first time used to successfully label the lysosomes of living HeLa cells and 81.5[Formula: see text]nm lateral resolution is obtained indicating the available super-resolution applications in living cells for inorganic QD probes. Meanwhile, Eca-109 cells labeled with the CdSe@ZnS QDs was observed with FLIM, and their fluorescence lifetime was around 3.1[Formula: see text]ns, consistent with the in vitro value, suggesting that the QDs could act as a satisfactory probe in further FLIM-STED experiments.