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A comprehensive investigation of amino grafted mesoporous silica nanoparticles supramolecular assemblies to host photoactive chlorophyll a in aqueous solution

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.03.041

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Chlorophyll a; Mesoporous silica nanoparticles; ROS; Photochemistry; Singlet oxygen

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  1. Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) [PONa3_00369]

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Highly ordered Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSNs), belonging to MCM-41 family (100 nm wide), with a mean pore size of about 4 nm, are used as carrier for the hydrophobic photosensitizer (PS) Chlorophyll a (Chl) in water medium. In future perspective to study the proposed system in Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and/or in antimicrobial-PDT (aPDT), advances in Chl studies in aqueous solution, mimicking the biological environment, were presented during this work with the main aim to obtain a supramolecular assembly able to host photoactive Chl in water medium. As synthetized MSNs and amino grafted MSNs (MSNs-NH2) were studied and carefully characterized, with and without Chl, using TGA, SEM, TEM, SAXS, Nitrogen physisorption isotherms, Z-potential investigation, FTIR-ATR and UV-vis absorption/fluorescence analyses, including also the Chl fluorescence lifetime evaluation. To drive Chl inside the pores, the drug loading method by using the adsorption process, was adopted. The NH2 moieties exerted a key role to host Chl inside the MSNs-NH2 pores, allowing to obtain Chl as monomer. Electrostatic interactions through positively charged amino groups were evidenced, along with the hydrogen bond presence involving the pigment hydrated form and the MSNs-NH2. Two Chl populations, i.e. ascribed to the monomeric and dimeric one, were revealed by (1)Chl* lifetime measurements and steady state fluorescence emission. The presence of photoactive Chl molecules was demonstrated with the qualitative evaluation of O-1(2) by means of chemical probes.

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