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Nanoparticles for in-vitro and in-vivo biosensing and imaging

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4 CONTENTS<br />

4.9 Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Burst analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

4.9.1 Aggregates size estimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

4.9.2 Excited state lifetime <strong>in</strong> the presence of BSA . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

4.10 Basic gold nanocrystal prote<strong>in</strong> sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

4.11 p53 prote<strong>in</strong> detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

4.12 Fluorescence burst analysis <strong>in</strong> solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

4.13 Dependence of the FITC Lifetime on the p53 Concentration . . . . . . . . 123<br />

4.14 In Vitro Selectivity of the p53 Assay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

4.15 In Vivo Test of the p53 Assay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />

4.16 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129<br />

5 Anisotropic nanoparticles 132<br />

5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132<br />

5.2 Gold nanoparticles lum<strong>in</strong>escence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133<br />

5.2.1 Two-photon lum<strong>in</strong>escence (TPL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

5.3 Experimental details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

5.3.1 <strong>Nanoparticles</strong> synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

5.3.2 Cell culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

5.4 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139<br />

5.4.1 UV-Vis characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139<br />

5.4.2 Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) characterization . . . . 141<br />

5.4.3 Z-potential characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

5.5 Dynamic Light Scatter<strong>in</strong>g characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

5.5.1 Solutions of LSB (LSB micelles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

5.5.2 Dynamic light scatter<strong>in</strong>g of the NPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146<br />

5.6 FCS experiment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

5.7 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

5.8 Concentration evalutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

5.9 TPL dependence on excitation power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

5.10 Emission Spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158<br />

5.11 Excitation spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159<br />

5.12 Dependence of TPL on the Polarization of the excit<strong>in</strong>g field light beam . 161<br />

5.12.1 Citotoxicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

5.13 Cellular uptake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165<br />

5.14 Photothermal effects of gold NRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

5.15 Experimental details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

5.15.1 Sample preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

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