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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 1054, Issue -, Pages 122-127Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2018.12.016
Keywords
Luminescence lifetime; Time-resolved; Motor; Lanthanide upconversion; Smartphone
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51603152]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M620315, 2018T110757]
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Luminescence lifetime detection plays an important role in time-resolved detection and research. However, the traditional instruments always require expensive detectors such as time-correlated single photon counter or streak camera. Herein, a low-cost and miniaturized apparatus for measuring upconversion luminescence lifetimes was developed by using a smartphone equipped with a 980 nm CW laser and a motor. When the motor was driving the sample circling at a high linear velocity, the excited sample would emit a luminescence arc, which could be photographed by the phone camera. The rotating rate could be measured by a tuner APP and then used for transferring arc length to delay times. By analyzing the grayscale distribution of the luminescence arc, the luminescence decay curve was obtained, which was then used for exponential fit and calculating lifetimes. The images captured by different smartphones revealed similar lifetime values, suggesting a wide universality of this method. The whole system was not only remarkably cheaper but also more miniaturized than traditional instruments for measuring luminescence lifetimes, indicating the promising applications in point of care testing for time-resolved luminescence detection for bioanalysis and disease diagnosis. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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