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Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Imaging of Live Cells Using Plasmon-Coupled DNA-Mediated Gold Nanoprism Assembly

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 120, Issue 8, Pages 4546-4555

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b00185

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  1. NSF-PREM grant [DMR-1205194]
  2. NIH [G12MD007581]

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Multiphoton excitation microscopy techniques are the emerging nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging methods to watch the biological world due its ability to penetrate deep into living tissues. Driven by the need to develop multimodal NLO imaging probe, the current article reports the design of DNA-mediated gold nanoprisms assembly based optical antennas to enhance multiphoton imaging capability in biological II window. Reported experimental data show a unique way to enhance second harmonic generation (SHG) and two-photon fluorescence (TPF) properties by several orders of magnitude via plasmon-coupled organization into gold nanoprism assembly structures. Experimental and theoretical modeling data using finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations indicate that huge enhancement of SHG and TPF properties are mainly due to the electric quadrupole contribution and electric field enhancement. Using 1100 nm biological II window light, reported results demonstrated that antibody conjugated assembly structures are capable of exhibiting highly selective and very bright multimodal SHG and TPF imaging of human Hep G2 liver cancer cells.

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