Fluorescence quenching near small metal nanoparticles

Fluorescence quenching in molecules near rough metal surfaces

A classical electrodynamic near field calculation for the interaction of a Drude oscillator molecular dipole with a rough metal surface is presented. Effects of electromagnetic coupling between surface bumps (assumed to be prolate hemispheroids) and the bulk metal are included. Fluorescence lifetimes are found to be two to four orders of magnitude smaller than those predicted for a flat plane i...

Spectral variation of fluorescence lifetime near single metal nanoparticles

We explore the spectral dependence of fluorescence enhancement and the associated lifetime modification of fluorescent molecules coupled to single metal nanoparticles. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and single-particle dark-field spectroscopy are combined to correlate the dependence of fluorescence lifetime reduction on the spectral overlap between the fluorescence emission and the lo...

Erratum: Spectral variation of fluorescence lifetime near single metal nanoparticles.

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Thionine Fluorescence Quenching by Metal Cations

The mechanism of the fluorescence quenching of aqueous thionine by various metal ions (Ce3+_, Fe2+, Mn2+, Mg2+, Cs+ and Na+) was studied at pn = 2.5. The following Stern-Volmer constants (K s v) were determined: XSv(Fe2+) == 1.13 dm3 mol -1 , Ksw(Mn2+) = 0.24 dm3 mol"1, Ksv(Ce3+) = 0.24 dm3 mol -1, i£sv(Cs~) — 0.03 dm3 mol -1 . At concentrations below 1 mol.dm -3 Na2S04 and MgS04 are very weak ...

Energy flow and fluorescence near a small metal particle