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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
卷 11, 期 38, 页码 10496-10500出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04210b
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- Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, Universita e Ricerca [PRIN-2017FJCPEX, PRIN2017PBXPN4]
- University of Bologna
- Nanjing Medical University
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [P19333]
- [19F19333]
Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) microscopy is an emerging technique with a wide range of imaging applications and unique properties in terms of high spatial resolution, surface confinement and favourable signal-to-noise ratio. Despite its successful analytical applications, tuning the depth of field (i.e., thickness of the ECL-emitting layer) is a crucial issue. Indeed, the control of the thickness of this ECL region, which can be considered as an evanescent reaction layer, limits the development of cell microscopy as well as bioassays. Here we report an original strategy based on chemical lens effects to tune the ECL-emitting layer in the model [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+)/tri-n-propylamine (TPrA) system. It consists of microbeads decorated with [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+)labels, classically used in bioassays, and TPrA as the sacrificial coreactant. In particular we exploit the buffer capacity of the solution to modify the rate of the reactions involved in the ECL generation. For the first time, a precise control of the ECL light distribution is demonstrated by mapping the luminescence reactivity at the level of single micrometric bead. The resulting ECL image is the luminescent signature of the concentration profiles of diffusing TPrA radicals, which define the ECL layer. Therefore, our findings provide insights into the ECL mechanism and open new avenues for ECL microscopy and bioassays. Indeed, the reported approach based on a chemical lens controls the spatial extension of the evanescent ECL-emitting layer and is conceptually similar to evanescent wave microscopy. Thus, it should allow the exploration and imaging of different heights in substrates or in cells.
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