Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 12, Issue 5, 1940003(2019)
Green emitted CdSe@ZnS quantum dots for FLIM and STED imaging applications
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 nm with a narrow width of 19 nm and the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) was 64%. The QDs presented excellent anti-photobleaching property which can be irradiated for 400 min by STED laser with 39.8mW. The lateral resolution of 42.0 nm is demonstrated for single QDs under STED laser (27.5mW) irradiation. Furthermore, the CdSe@ZnS QDs were for the first time used to successfully label the lysosomes of living HeLa cells and 81.5nm 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 ns, consistent with the in vitro value, suggesting that the QDs could act as a satisfactory probe in further FLIM-STED experiments.
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Mengjie Zhao, Shuai Ye, Xiao Peng, Jun Song, Junle Qu. Green emitted CdSe@ZnS quantum dots for FLIM and STED imaging applications[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2019, 12(5): 1940003
Received: Mar. 27, 2019
Accepted: May. 22, 2019
Published Online: Oct. 22, 2019
The Author Email: Ye Shuai (yes121@szu.edu.cn)