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Item Open Access Cyanide sensing via metal ion removal from a fluorogenic BODIPY complex(Elsevier, 2009) Guliyev, R.; Buyukcakir, O.; Sozmen, F.; Bozdemir, O. A.We report a highly selective and sensitive reversible cyanide sensor operating in the ‘turn-off-on’ mode via decomplexation of Cu(II) ions from a brightly fluorescent boradiazaindacene derivative. The sensor is reversible as the emission signal originates from the dynamic equilibration of dipicolylamine–Cu(II) and tetracyanocuprate complex ions.Item Open Access Non-radiative resonance energy transfer in bi-polymer nanoparticles of fluorescent conjugated polymers(Optical Society of American (OSA), 2010) Ozel I.O.; Ozel, T.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan; Tuncel, D.This work demonstrates the comparative studies of non-radiative resonance energy transfer in bi-polymer nanoparticles based on fluorescent conjugated polymers. For this purpose, poly[(9,9-dihexylfluorene) (PF) as a donor (D) and poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) as an acceptor (A) have been utilized, from which four different bi-polymer nanoparticle systems are designed and synthesized. Both, steady-state fluorescence spectra and time-resolved fluorescence measurements indicate varying energy transfer efficiencies from the host polymer PF to the acceptor polymer MEH-PPV depending on the D-A distances and structural properties of the nanoparticles. The first approach involves the preparation of PF and MEH-PPV nanoparticles separately and mixing them at a certain ratio. In the second approach, first PF and MEH-PPV solutions are mixed prior to nanoparticle formation and then nanoparticles are prepared from the mixture. Third and fourth approaches involve the sequential nanoparticle preparation. In the former, nanoparticles are prepared to have PF as a core and MEH-PPV as a shell. The latter is the reverse of the third in which the core is MEH-PPV and the shell is PF. The highest energy transfer efficiency recorded to be 35% is obtained from the last system, in which a PF layer is sequentially formed on MEH-PPV NPs. © 2010 Optical Society of America.Item Open Access Transmission Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy Investigation on Cellular Uptake Behavior of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles(2012) Zhang, Y.; Kyle J.R.; Penchev, M.; Yazdanpanah V.; Yu J.; Li, Y.; Yang, M.; Budak G.; Özbay, Ekmel; Ozkan, M.; Ozkan, C.S.Cellular uptake behavior of iron oxide nanoparticles is investigated using a transmission near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) without the need of fluorescent labeling. By using the transmission NSOM system, we could simultaneously explore the near-field optical analysis of the cell interior and record the topographic information of the cell surface. The cell endocytosis of iron oxide nanoparticles by normal breast MCF10A cells is first studied by this transmission NSOM system, and this dual functional nanoscale-resolution microscopy shows the capability of mapping the spatial localization of nanoparticles in/outside cell surface without the need of fluorescence labeling. Nanoscale optical signature patterns for iron oxide nanoparticle-loaded vesicles inside the cells were observed and analyzed. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.