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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 82, Issue 13, Pages 5470-5476Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac100116j
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The correlation between the fluorescent dynamics of excited anilinonaphthalene sulfonate (ANS) and the microviscosity of solvent molecules surrounding ANS is investigated by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. ANS has been widely used to probe the local hydrophobicity due to the drastic change in its intensity. It is revealed that the fluorescence lifetime from the charge transfer (CT) state of ANS sensitively reflects the microviscosity. The higher sensitivity of 2,6-ANS than of 1,8 ANS demonstrates that the spatial freedom of the rotating phenylamino group in the photoexcited ANS is an important factor that determines the sensitivity. As an application, the measurements of the microviscosity of water in biologically important systems, such as hyaluronan, gellan gum, and gelatin aqueous solutions are also presented. The present results suggest that the fluorescence lifetime of ANS enables the estimation of the solvent microviscosity and provide a useful probe molecule for fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy.
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