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J Phys Chem A ; 124(9): 1867-1876, 2020 Mar 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32096402

RESUMO

Inorganic lead halide perovskite nanostructures show promise as the active layers in photovoltaics, light emitting diodes, and other optoelectronic devices. They are robust in the presence of oxygen and water, and the electronic structure and dynamics of these nanostructures can be tuned through quantum confinement. Here we create aligned bundles of CsPbBr3 nanowires with widths resulting in quantum confinement of the electronic wave functions and subject them to ultrafast microscopy. We directly image rapid one-dimensional exciton diffusion along the nanowires, and we measure an exciton trap density of roughly one per nanowire. Using transient absorption microscopy, we observe a polarization-dependent splitting of the band edge exciton line, and from the polarized fluorescence of nanowires in solution, we determine that the exciton transition dipole moments are anisotropic in strength. Our observations are consistent with a model in which splitting is driven by shape anisotropy in conjunction with long-range exchange.

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Toxicol Sci ; 163(1): 214-225, 2018 05 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29385624

RESUMO

TEMPO (2, 2, 6, 6-tetramethylphiperidine-1-oxyl) and its derivatives are stable free radical nitroxides widely used in the field of chemistry, biology, and pharmacology. TEMPO was previously found to be mutagenic and to induce micronuclei in mammalian cells. In this study, we investigated and quantified the genotoxicity of 4 structurally similar nitroxides, TEMPO and 3 of its derivatives (4-hydroxy-TEMPO, 4-oxo-TEMPO, and 4-methoxy-TEMPO), using the mouse lymphoma assay (MLA) and Comet assay in L5178Y Tk+/- cells. The results showed that all tested nitroxides were cytotoxic and mutagenic in the MLA, both in the presence and absence of S9, with metabolic activation significantly enhancing the cytotoxicity and/or mutagenicity. In addition, the 4 nitroxides caused DNA-strand breakage. The mutagenicity and DNA damaging dose-responses of the test articles were compared using the PROAST benchmark dose software package. The potency ranking of the 4 nitroxides for mutagenicity was different from the ranking of the DNA damaging effects. The mode of action analysis by a multi-endpoint DNA damage pathway assay classified all 4 nitroxides as clastogens. In addition, the majority of the induced Tk mutants showed loss of heterozygosity at the Tk and D11Mit42 loci (ie, chromosome damage <31 Mbp). These results suggest that TEMPO and its 3 derivatives are cytotoxic and mutagenic in mouse lymphoma cells through a mechanism that involves strand breakage and large alterations to DNA. The potency rankings indicate that the different TEMPO derivatives vary in their mutagenic and DNA damaging potential.


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Óxidos N-Cíclicos/toxicidade , Dano ao DNA , Hidroxilamina/toxicidade , Mutagênicos/toxicidade , Piperidinas/toxicidade , Animais , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Proliferação de Células/efeitos dos fármacos , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Ensaio Cometa , Óxidos N-Cíclicos/química , Humanos , Camundongos , Mutagênicos/química
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ACS Sens ; 1(11): 1295-1300, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30035233

RESUMO

We demonstrate the first biosensing strategy that relies on quantum dot (QD) fluorescence blinking to report the presence of a target molecule. Unlike other biosensors that utilize QDs, our method does not require the analyte to induce any fluorescence intensity or color changes, making it readily applicable to a wide range of target species. Instead, our approach relies on the understanding that blinking, a single particle phenomenon, is obscured when several QDs lie within the detection volume of a confocal microscope. If QDs are engineered to aggregate when they encounter a particular target molecule, the observation of quasi-continuous emission should indicate its presence. As proof of concept, we programmed DNAs to drive rapid isothermal assembly of QDs in the presence of a target strand (oncogene K-ras). The assemblies, confirmed by various gel techniques, contained multiple QDs and were readily distinguished from free QDs by the absence of blinking.

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