Synthesis and characterization of colloidal fluorescent silver nanoclusters

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8915-8919

  Huang, Sherry ^a,b,c   Pfeiffer, Christian ^b   Hollmann, Jana ^b   Friede, Sebastian ^b   Chen, Justin Jin Ching ^c   Beyer, Andreas ^b   Haas, Benedikt ^b   Volz, Kerstin ^b   Heimbrodt, Wolfram ^b   Montenegro Martos, Jose Maria ^b   Chang, Walter ^c   Parak, Wolfgang J ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL STABILITY; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS; ULTRA-SMALL;

FLUORESCENCE; NANOCLUSTERS;

SILVER;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

COLLOIDS; FLUORESCENCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862530799     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la300346t     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Zheng, J.; Nicovich, P. R.; Dickson, R. M. Highly Fluorescent Noble-Metal Quantum Dots Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2007, 58, 409-431 (Pubitemid 46877596)
2. Lin, C. A. J.; Yang, T. Y.; Lee, C. H.; Huang, S. H.; Sperling, R. A.; Zanella, M.; Li, J. K.; Shen, J. L.; Wang, H. H.; Yeh, H. I.; Parak, W. J.; Chang, W. H. Synthesis, Characterization, and Bioconjugation of Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters toward Biological Labeling Applications ACS Nano 2009, 3, 395-401
3. Jin, R. Quantum sized, thiolate-protected gold nanoclusters Nanoscale 2010, 2, 343-362
4. Scolari, M.; Mews, A.; Fu, N.; Myalitsin, A.; Assmus, T.; Balasubramanian, K.; Burghard, M.; Kern, K. Surface enhanced Raman scattering of carbon nanotubes decorated by individual fluorescent gold particles J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 391-396 (Pubitemid 351189879)
5. Wu, X.; He, X.; Wang, K.; Xie, C.; Zhou, B.; Qing, Z. Ultrasmall near-infrared gold nanoclusters for tumor fluorescence imaging in vivo Nanoscale 2010, 2, 2244-2249
6. Lin, Y. H.; Tseng, W. L. Ultrasensitive sensing of Hg(2+) and CH(3)Hg(+) based on the fluorescence quenching of lysozyme type VI-stabilized gold nanoclusters Anal. Chem. 2010, 82, 9194-9200
7. Xie, J.; Zheng, Y.; Ying, J. Y. Protein-directed synthesis of highly fluorescent gold nanoclusters J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 2009, 131, 888-889
8. Whetten, R. L.; Khoury, J. T.; Alvarez, M. M.; Murthy, S.; Vezmar, I.; Wang, Z. L.; Stephens, P. W.; Cleveland, C. L.; Luedtke, W. D.; Landman, U. Nanocrystal gold molecules Adv. Mater. 1996, 8, 428-433 (Pubitemid 126601756)
9. Whetten, R. L.; Shafigullin, M. N.; Khoury, J. T.; Schaaff, T. G.; Vezmar, I.; Alvarez, M. M.; Wilkinson, A. Crystal Structures of Molecular Gold Nanocrystal Arrays Acc. Chem. Res. 1999, 32, 397-406
10. Kawasaki, H.; Hamaguchi, K.; Osaka, I.; Arakawa, R. ph-Dependent Synthesis of Pepsin-Mediated Gold Nanoclusters with Blue Green and Red Fluorescent Emission Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, 21, 3508-3515
11. Liu, C. L.; Wu, H. T.; Hsiao, Y. H.; Lai, C. W.; Shih, C. W.; Peng, Y. K.; Tang, K. C.; Chang, H. W.; Chien, Y. C.; Hsiao, J. K.; Cheng, J. T.; Chou, P. T. Insulin-directed synthesis of fluorescent gold nanoclusters: preservation of insulin bioactivity and versatility in cell imaging Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 7056-7060
12. Wang, H.-H.; Lin, C.-A. J.; Lee, C.-H.; Lin, Y.-C.; Tseng, Y.-M.; Hsieh, C.-L.; Chen, C.-H.; Tsai, C.-H.; Hsieh, C.-T.; Shen, J.-L.; Chan, W.-H.; Chang, W. H.; Yeh, H.-I. Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters as a Biocompatible Marker for In Vitro and In Vivo Tracking of Endothelial Cells ACS Nano 2011, 5, 4337-4344
13. Shang, L.; Azadfar, N.; Stockmar, F.; Send, W.; Trouillet, V.; Bruns, M.; Gerthsen, D.; Nienhaus, G. U. One-pot synthesis of near-infrared fluorescent gold clusters for cellular fluorescence lifetime imaging Small 2011, 7, 2614-2620
14. Liu, H.; Zhang, X.; Wu, X.; Jiang, L.; Burda, C.; Zhu, J. J. Rapid sonochemical synthesis of highly luminescent non-toxic AuNCs and Au@AgNCs and Cu (II) sensing Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 4237-4239
15. Katzschmann, R.; Rehfeld, A.; Kranold, R. Optical anomaly of small particles in glasses Phys. Status Solidi A 1977, 40, K161
16. Spanhel, L.; Haase, M.; Weller, H.; Henglein, A. Photochemistry of Colloidal Semiconductors. 20. Surface Modification and Stability of Strog Luminescing CdS Particles J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1987, 109, 5649-5655
17. Bawendi, M. G.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Brus, L. E. The quantum mechanics of large semiconductor clusters ("quantum dots") Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 1990, 41, 477-496
18. Ekimov, A. I.; Efros, A. L.; Onushchenko, A. A. Quantum size effect in semiconductor microcrystals Solid State Commun. 1993, 88, 947-50
19. Alivisatos, A. P. Semiconductor Clusters, Nanocrystals, and Quantum Dots Science 1996, 271, 933-937 (Pubitemid 126554899)
20. Vosch, T.; Antoku, Y.; Hsiang, J.-C.; Richards, C. I.; Gonzalez, J. I.; Dickson, R. M. Strongly emissive individual DNA-encapsulated Ag nanoclusters as single-molecule fluorophores Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007, 104, 12616-12621 (Pubitemid 47255203)
21. Guo, C.; Irudayaraj, J. Fluorescent Ag Clusters via a Protein-Directed Approach as a Hg(II) Ion Sensor Anal. Chem. 2011, 83, 2883-2889
22. Diez, I.; Pusa, M.; Kulmala, S.; Jiang, H.; Walther, A.; Goldmann, A. S.; Muller, A. H.; Ikkala, O.; Ras, R. H. Color tunability and electrochemiluminescence of silver nanoclusters Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2122-2125
23. Li, T.; Zhang, L.; Ai, J.; Dong, S.; Wang, E. Ion-Tuned DNA/Ag Fluorescent Nanoclusters As Versatile Logic Device ACS Nano 2011, 5, 6334-6338
24. Le Guével, X.; Hötzer, B.; Jung, G.; Hollemeyer, K.; Trouillet, V.; Schneider, M. Formation of Fluorescent Metal (Au, Ag) Nanoclusters Capped in Bovine Serum Albumin Followed by Fluorescence and Spectroscopy J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 10955-10963
25. Liu, S.; Lu, F.; Zhu, J. J. Highly fluorescent Ag nanoclusters: microwave-assisted green synthesis and Cr3+ sensing Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 2661-2263
26. Adhikari, B.; Banerjee, A. Facile Synthesis of Water-Soluble Fluorescent Silver Nanoclusters and HgII Sensing Chem. Mater. 2010, 22, 4364-4371
27. Sharma, J.; Yeh, H.-C.; Yoo, H.; Werner, J. H.; Martinez, J. S. A complementary palette of fluorescent silver nanoclusters Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 3280-3282
28. Sharma, J.; Yeh, H. C.; Yoo, H.; Werner, J. H.; Martinez, J. S. Silver nanocluster aptamers: in situ generation of intrinsically fluorescent recognition ligands for protein detection Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 2294-2296
29. Yeh, H.-C.; Sharma, J.; Han, J. J.; Martinez, J. S.; Werner, J. H. A DNA-Silver Nanocluster Probe That Fluoresces upon Hybridization Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 3106-3110
30. Yuan, X.; Luo, Z. T.; Zhang, Q. B.; Zhang, X. H.; Zheng, Y. G.; Lee, J. Y.; Xie, J. P. Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Metal (Ag, Au, Pt, and Cu) Nanoclusters by Electrostatically Induced Reversible Phase Transfer ACS Nano 2011, 5, 8800-8808
31. Shang, L.; Dong, S.; Nienhaus, G. U. Ultra-small fluorescent metal nanoclusters: Synthesis and biological applications Nano Today 2011, 6, 401-418
32. Sperling, R. A.; Rivera Gil, P.; Zhang, F.; Zanella, M.; Parak, W. J. Biological Applications of Gold Nanoparticles Chem. Soc. Rev. 2008, 37, 1896-1908
33. Leuvering, J. H. W.; Thal, P. J. H. M.; Waart, M. v. d.; Schuurs, A. H. W. M. Sol Particle Agglutination Immunoassay For Human Chorionic-Gonadotropin Fresenius' J. Anal. Chem. 1980, 301, 132
34. Elghanian, R.; Storhoff, J. J.; Mucic, R. C.; Letsinger, R. L.; Mirkin, C. A. Selective Colorimetric Detection of Polynucleotides Based on the Distance-Dependent Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles Science 1997, 277, 1078-1081 (Pubitemid 27371624)
35. Morones, J.; Elechiguerra, J.; Camacho, A.; Holt, K.; Kouri, J.; Ram, J.; Yacaman, M. The bactericidal effect of silver nanoparticles Nanotechnology 2005, 16, 2346-2352
36. Baker, C.; Pradhan, A.; Pakstis, L.; Pochan, D. J.; Shah, S. I. Synthesis and antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2005, 5, 244-249 (Pubitemid 44502229)
37. Sondi, I.; Salopek-Sondi, B. Silver nanoparticles as antimicrobial agent: a case study on E. coli as a model for Gram-negative bacteria J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2004, 275, 177-182 (Pubitemid 38670216)
38. Choi, O.; Deng, K. K.; Kim, N. J.; Ross, L., Jr.; Surampalli, R. Y.; Hu, Z. The inhibitory effects of silver nanoparticles, silver ions, and silver chloride colloids on microbial growth Water Res. 2008, 42, 3066-3074
39. Fu, J.; Ji, J.; Fan, D.; Shen, J. Construction of antibacterial multilayer films containing nanosilver via layer-by-layer assembly of heparin and chitosan-silver ions complex J. Biomed. Mater. Res., Part A 2006, 79, 665-674 (Pubitemid 44845181)
40. Lok, C. N.; Ho, C. M.; Chen, R.; He, Q. Y.; Yu, W. Y.; Sun, H.; Tam, P. K.; Chiu, J. F.; Che, C. M. Proteomic analysis of the mode of antibacterial action of silver nanoparticles J. Proteome Res. 2006, 5, 916-924
41. Gogoi, S. K.; Gopinath, P.; Paul, A.; Ramesh, A.; Ghosh, S. S.; Chattopadhyay, A. Green fluorescent protein-expressing Escherichia coli as a model system for investigating the antimicrobial activities of silver nanoparticles Langmuir 2006, 22, 9322-9328 (Pubitemid 44818524)
42. Rastogi, S. K.; Rutledge, V. J.; Gibson, C.; Newcombe, D. A.; Branen, J. R.; Branen, A. L. Ag colloids and Ag clusters over EDAPTMS-coated silica nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, and antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli Nanomed. Nanotechnol. Biol. Med. 2011, 7, 305-314
43. Tarantola, M.; Schneider, D.; Sunnick, E.; Adam, H.; Pierrat, S.; Rosman, C.; Breus, V.; Sonnichsen, C.; Basche, T.; Wegener, J.; Janshoff, A. Cytotoxicity of Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles Indicated by Cellular Micromotility ACS Nano 2009, 3, 213-222
44. Eom, H.-J.; Choi, J. p38 MAPK Activation, DNA Damage, Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis As Mechanisms of Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles in Jurkat T Cells Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44, 8337-8342
45. Piao, M. J.; Kang, K. A.; Lee, I. K.; Kim, H. S.; Kim, S.; Choi, J. Y.; Choi, J.; Hyun, J. W. Silver nanoparticles induce oxidative cell damage in human liver cells through inhibition of reduced glutathione and induction of mitochondria-involved apoptosis Toxicol. Lett. 2011, 201, 92-100
46. Díaz, B.; Sánchez-Espinel, C.; Arruebo, M.; Faro, J.; de Miguel, E.; Magadán, S.; Yagüe, C.; Fernández-Pacheco, R.; Ibarra, M. R.; Santamaría, J.; González-Fernández, á. Assessing Methods for Blood Cell Cytotoxic Responses to Inorganic Nanoparticles and Nanoparticle Aggregates Small 2008, 4, 2025-2034
47. Kittler, S.; Greulich, C.; Diendorf, J.; Koller, M.; Epple, M. Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles Increases during Storage Because of Slow Dissolution under Release of Silver Ions Chem. Mater. 2010, 22, 4548-4554
48. Li, P.-W.; Kuo, T.-H.; Chang, J.-H.; Yeh, J.-M.; Chan, W.-H. Induction of cytotoxicity and apoptosis in mouse blastocysts by silver nanoparticles Toxicol. Lett. 2010, 197, 82-87
49. Diéz, I.; Ras, R. H. A. Fluorescent silver nanoclusters Nanoscale 2011, 3, 1963-1970
50. Li, G.; Luo, Y.; Lu, W.; Li, J.; Jin, Y.; Guo, S. Dependence of Property of Silver Nanoparticles within Dendrimer-template on Molar Ratios of Ag+ to PAMAM Dendrimers Chin. J. Chem. 2010, 28, 633-638
51. Gwinn, E. G.; O Neill, P.; Guerrero, A. J.; Bouwmeester, D.; Fygenson, D. K. Sequence-Dependent Fluorescence of DNA-Hosted Silver Nanoclusters Adv. Mater. 2008, 20, 279-283 (Pubitemid 351205703)
52. Cremer, G. D.; Antoku, Y.; Roeffaers, M. B. J.; Sliwa, M.; Noyen, J. V.; Smout, S.; Hofkens, J.; Vos, D. E. D.; Sels, B. F.; Vosch, T. Photoactivation of Silver-Exchanged Zeolite A Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2813-2816
53. Ozln, G. A.; Hugues, F.; Mattar, S. M.; McIntosh, D. F. Low Nuclearlty Sllver Clusters in Faujasite-Type Zeolites: Optical Spectroscopy, Photochemistry, and Relationship to the Photodlmerization of Alkanes J. Phys. Chem. 1983, 87, 3445-3450
54. Zhang, H.; Huang, X.; Li, L.; Zhang, G.; Hussain, I.; Li, Z.; Tan, B. Photoreductive synthesis of water-soluble fluorescent metal nanoclusters Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 567-569
55. Shang, L.; Dong, S. Facile preparation of water-soluble fluorescent silver nanoclusters using a polyelectrolyte template Chem. Commun. 2008, 1088-90 (Pubitemid 351311319)
56. Xu, H.; Suslick, K. S. Sonochemical Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Ag Nanoclusters ACS Nano 2010, 6, 3209-3214
57. Jana, N. R.; Peng, X. Single-phase and gram-scale routes toward nearly monodisperse Au and other noble metal nanocrystals J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 14280-14281 (Pubitemid 37452358)
58. Hull, S.; Keen, D. A. Pressure-induced phase transitions in AgCl, AgBr, and AgI Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter 1999, 59, 750-761
59. Niggli, P. The crystal structure of several oxides Z. Kristallogr. 1922, 57, 253-299
60. Sperling, R. A.; Liedl, T.; Duhr, S.; Kudera, S.; Zanella, M.; Lin, C.-A. J.; Chang, W.; Braun, D.; Parak, W. J. Size determination of (bio-) conjugated water-soluble colloidal nanoparticles-a comparison of different techniques J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 11552-11559 (Pubitemid 47280550)
61. Lakowicz, J. R. Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy; 3rd ed.; Springer: New York, 2006; p 954.
62. Alvarez, M. M.; Khoury, J. T.; Schaaff, T. G.; Shafigullin, M. N.; Vezmar, I.; Whetten, R. L. Optical Absorption Spectra of Nanocrystal Gold Molecules J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 3706-3712 (Pubitemid 127581121)
63. Schaaff, T. G.; Shafigullin, M. N.; Khoury, J. T.; Vezmar, I.; Whetten, R. L.; Cullen, W. G.; First, P. N. Isolation of Smaller Nanocrystal Au Molecules: Robust Quantum Effects in Optical Spectra J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 7885-7891 (Pubitemid 127576548)
64. de Heer, W. A. The physics of simple metal Clusters: experimantal aspects and simple models Rev. Mod. Phys. 1993, 65, 611-676
65. Schaaff, T. G.; Knight, G.; Shafigullin, M. N.; Borkman, R. F.; Whetten, R. L. Isolation and Selected Properties of a 10.4 kDa Gold: Glutathione Cluster Compound J. Phys. Chem. B 1998, 102, 10643-10646