Abstract
In this chapter, we review principles of metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF), including critical experimental support for the Unified Plasmon-Fluorophore description for the mechanism of MEF. By this description, two routes of enhancement exist for a fluorophore coupled with a metal nanoparticle: namely enhanced absorption and enhanced emission. Literature reports included in this chapter describe the characteristics of a coupled system that influence the efficiency of MEF, including: nanoparticle morphology, distance dependence, the excitation volume effect (EVE) to name but just a few. Reported changes in the photophysical properties of free-space fluorophores, namely improved quantum yields and photostability, for these optimized systems establish MEF as a highly competitive technology for multifarious applications. Subsequently, various applications for MEF systems are highlighted, including MEF-based immunodiagnostics, bioluminescence assays, and the potential for MEF in photodynamic therapy. MEF can also find utility in the development of fluorescence-based electronics as a substitute for potentially toxic quantum dot technologies. Herein we include an effective overview of its principles and a glimpse into prospective advantages of MEF in application.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Wu Z, Ma D (2016) Recent advances in white organic light-emitting diodes. Mater Sci Eng R 107:1–42
Li Q, Liu L, Liu J, Jiang J, Yu R, Chu X (2014) Nanomaterial-based fluorescent probes for live-cell imaging. Trends Anal Chem 58:130–144
Kohen E, Santus R, Hirschberg JG (2002) Fluorescence probes in oncology. Imperial College Press, London
Wolfbeis OS (2008) Fluorescence methods and applications: spectroscopy, imaging, and probes. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA
Zheng Q, Jockusch S, RodrÃguez-Calero GG, Zhou Z, Zhao H, Altman RB, Abruñab HD, Blanchard SC (2016) Intra-molecular triplet energy transfer is a general approach to improve organic fluorophore photostability. Photochem Photobiol Sci 15:196–203
Hardman R (2006) A toxicologic review of quantum dots: toxicity depends on physicochemical and environmental factors. Environ Health Perspect 114(2):165–172
Derfus AM, Chan WCW, Bhatia SN (2004) Probing the cytotoxicity of semiconductor quantum dots. Nano Lett 4(1):11–18
Zhang Y, Dragan A, Geddes CD (2010) Metal-enhanced fluorescence from tin nanostructured surfaces. J Appl Phys 107:024302
Mishra H, Dragan A, Geddes CD (2011) UV to NIR surface plasmon coupled and metal-enhanced fluorescence using Indium thin films: application to intrinsic (label-less) protein fluorescence detection. J Phys Chem C 115:17227–17236
Zhang Y, Geddes CD (2010) Metal-enhanced fluorescence from thermally stable rhodium nanodeposits. J Mater Chem 20:8600–8606
Zhang Y, Dragan A, Geddes CD (2009) Broad wavelength range metal-enhanced fluorescence using nickel nanodeposits. J Phys Chem C 113:15811–15816
Lakowicz JR, Geddes CD, Gryczynski I, Malicka J, Gryczynski Z, Aslan K, Lukomska J, Matveeva E, Zhang J, Badugu R, Huang J (2004) Advances in surface-enhanced fluorescence. J Fluoresc 14(4):425–441
Geddes CD, Lakowicz JR (2002) Metal-enhanced fluorescence. J Fluoresc 12(2):121–129
Karolin J, Geddes CD, Spectral shifts in metal-enhanced fluorescence. Appl Phys Lett 105:064102
Ranjan R, Esimbekova EN, Kirillova MA, Kratasyuk VA (2017) Metal-enhanced luminescence: current trend and future perspectives—a review. Anal Chim Acta 971:1–13
Dragan AI, Geddes CD (2011) Excitation volumetric effects (EVE) in metal-enhanced fluorescence. Phys Chem Chem Phys 13:3831–3838
Aslan K, Gryczynski I, Malicka J, Matveeva E, Lackowicz JR, Geddes CD (2005) Metal-enhanced fluorescence: an emerging tool in biotechnology. Curr Opin Biotechnol 16:55–62
Mishra H, Mali BL, Karolin J, Dragan AI, Geddes CD (2013) Experimental and theoretical study of the distance dependence of metal-enhanced fluorescence, phosphorescence and delayed fluorescence in a single system. Phys Chem Chem Phys 15:19538–19544
Zhang Y, Aslan K, Previte MJR, Malyn SN, Geddes CD (2006) Metal-enhanced phosphorescence: interpretation in terms of triplet-coupled radiating plasmons. J Phys Chem B 110(49):25108–25114
Karolin J, Geddes CD (2013) Metal-enhanced fluorescence based excitation volumetric effect of plasmon-enhanced singlet oxygen and super oxide generation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 15:15740–15745
Zhang Y, Aslan K, Previte MJR (2007) Metal-enhanced superoxide generation: a consequence of plasmon-enhanced triplet yields. Appl Phys Lett 91:023114
Zhang Y, Aslan K, Previte MJR, Geddes CD (2008) Plasmonic engineering of singlet oxygen generation. PNAS 105(6):1798–1802
Schmid G (2004) Nanoparticles: from theory to application. WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co., KGaA, Weinheim
Aslan K, Previte MJR, Zhang Y, Geddes CD (2008) Surface plasmon coupled fluorescence in the ultraviolet and visible spectral regions using zinc thin films. Anal Chem 80:7304–7312
Zhang Y, Aslan K, Previte MJR (2007) Metal-enhanced fluorescence from copper substrates. Appl Phys Lett 90:173116
Hao Q, Qiu T, Chu PK (2012) Surfaced-enhanced cellular fluorescence imaging. Prog Surf Sci 87:23–45
Cui Q, He F, Li L, Möhwald H (2014) Controllable metal-enhanced fluorescence in organized films and colloidal system. Adv Coll Interface Sci 207:164–177
Kumar A, Singh S, Mudahar GS, Thind KS (2006) Molar extinction coefficients of some commonly used solvents. Radiat Phys Chem 75:737–740
Hlaing M, Gebear-Eigzabher B, Roa A, Marcano A, Radu D, Lai C (2016) Absorption and scattering cross-section extinction values of silver nanoparticles. Opt Mater 58:439–444
Zhang Y, Mali BL, Geddes CD (2012) Metal-enhanced fluorescence exciplex emission. Spectrochim Acta Part A 85:134–138
Aslan K, Previte MJR, Zhang Y, Geddes CD (2008) Metal-enhanced fluorescence from nanoparticulate zinc films. J Phys Chem C 112:18368–18375
Theodorou IG, Jawad ZAR, Jiang Q, Aboagye EO, Porter AE, Ryan MP, **e F (2017) Gold nanostar substrates for metal-enhanced fluorescence through the first and second near-infrared windows. Chem Mater 29:6916–6926
Zhang Y, Yang C, Zhang G, Peng Z, Yao L, Wang Q, Cao Z, Mu Q, Xuan L (2017) Distance-dependent metal-enhanced fluorescence by flowerlike silver nanostructures fabricated in liquid crystalline phase. Opt Mater 72:289–294
Pang J, Theodorou IG, Centeno A, Petrov PK, Alford NM, Ryan MP, **e F (2017) Gold nanodisc arrays as near infrared metal-enhanced fluorescence platforms with tuneable enhancement factors. J Mater Chem C 5:917–925
Furtaw MD, Anderson JP, Middendorf LR, Bashford GR (2014) Near-infrared, surface-enhanced fluorescence using silver nanoparticle aggregates in solution. Plasmonics 9:27–34
Chowdhury MH, Ray K, Gray SK, Pond J, Lakowicz JR (2009) Aluminum nanoparticles as substrates for metal-enhanced fluorescence in the ultraviolet for the label-free detection of biomolecules. Anal Chem 81:1397–1403
Sugawa K, Tamura T, Tahara H, Yamaguchi D, Akiyama T, Otsuki J, Kusaka Y, Fukada N, Ushijima H (2013) Metal-enhanced fluorescence platforms based on plasmonic ordered copper arrays: wavelength dependence of quenching and enhancement effects. ACS Nano 7(11):9997–10010
Geddes CD, Parfenov A, Roll D, Uddin MJ, Lackowicz JR (2003) Fluorescence spectral properties of indocyanine green on a roughened platinum electrode: metal-enhanced fluorescence. J Fluoresc 13(6):453–457
Omidvar A, Rashidian Viziri MR, Jaleh B, Partovi Shabestari N, Noroozi M (2016) Metal-enhanced fluorescence of graphene oxide by palladium nanoparticles in the blue–green part of the spectrum. Chin Phys B 25(11):118102
Rowland CE, Delehanty JB, Dwyer CL, Medintz IL (2017) Growing applications for bioassembled Förster resonance energy transfer cascades. Mater Today 20(3):131–141
Chen S, Yu Y, Wang J (2017) Inner filter effect-based fluorescent sensing systems: a review. Anal Chim Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2017.10.026
Zhou Z, Huang H, Chen Y, Liu F, Huang CZ, Li N (2014) A distance-dependent metal-enhanced fluorescence sensing platform based on molecular beacon design. Biosens Bioelectron 52:367–373
Dragan AI, Bishop ES, Casas-Finet JR, Strouse RJ, McGivney J, Schenerman MA, Geddes CD (2012) Distance dependence of metal-enhanced fluorescence. Plasmonics 7(4):739–744
Previte MJR, Zhang Y, Aslan K, Geddes CD (2007) Surface plasmon coupled fluorescence from copper substrates. Appl Phys Lett 91:151902
Ray K, Szmacinski H, Enderlein J, Lackowicz JR (2007) Distance dependence of surface plasmon-coupled emission observed using Langmuir-Blodgett films. Appl Phys Lett 90:251116
Karolin JO, Geddes CD (2012) Reduced lifetimes are directly correlated with excitation irradiance in metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF). J Fluoresc 22(6):1659–1662
Ren Z, Li X, Guo J, Wang R, Wu Y, Zhang M, Li C, Han Q, Dong J, Zheng H (2015) Solution-based metal-enhanced fluorescence with gold and gold/silver core-shell nanorods. Opt Commun 357:156–160
Lee M, Yang W, Kim JH, Hwang K, Chae W (2017) Silver-coated nanoporous gold skeletons for fluorescence amplification. Microporous Mesoporous Mater 237:60–64
Zhang Y, Dragan A, Geddes CD (2009) Wavelength dependence of metal-enhanced fluorescence. J Phys Chem C 113(28):12095–12100
Hamo H, Karolin J, Mali B, Kushmaro A, Marks R, Geddes CD (2015) Metal-enhanced fluorescence from zinc substrates can lead to spectral distortion and a wavelength dependence. Appl Phys Lett 106:081605
Dragan AI, Mali B, Geddes CD (2013) Wavelength-dependent metal-enhanced fluorescence using synchronous spectral analysis. Chem Phys Lett 556:168–172
Dragan AI, Albrecht MT, Pavlovic R, Keane-Myers AM, Geddes CD (2012) Ultra-fast pg/ml anthrax toxin (protective antigen) detection assay based on microwave-accelerated metal-enhanced fluorescence. Anal Biochem 425:54–61
Aslan K, Wu M, Lakowicz JR, Geddes CD (2007) Fluorescent core-shell Ag@SiO2 nanocomposites for metal-enhanced fluorescence and singlet nanoparticle sensing platforms. J Am Chem Soc 129:1524–1525
Aslan K, Gryczynski I, Malicka J, Lakowicz JR, Geddes CD (2005) Metal-enhanced fluorescence: application to high-throughput screening and drug discovery. In: Gad S (ed) Drug discovery handbook. Wiley, New Jersey, USA, pp 603–666
Aslan K, Holley P, Geddes CD (2006) Microwave-accelerated metal-enhanced fluorescence (MAMEF) with silver colloids in 96-well plates: application to ultra fast and sensitive immunoassays, high throughput screening, and drug discovery. J Immunol Methods 312:137–147
Resch-Genger U, Grabolle M, Cavaliere-Jaricot S, Nitschke R, Nann T (2008) Quantum dots versus organic dyes as fluorescent labels. Nat Methods 5(9):763–775
Rocha TL, Mestre NC, Sabóia-Morais SM, Bebianno MJ (2017) Environmental behaviour and ecotoxicity of quantum dots at various trophic levels: a review. Environ Int 98:1–17
Juan J, Zhou S, Gu G (2005) Encapsulation of organic pigment particles with silica via sol–gel process. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 36:265–274
Xu D, Deng Y, Li C, Lin Y, Tang H (2017) Metal-enhanced fluorescent dye-doped silica nanoparticles and magnetic separation: a sensitive platform for one-step fluorescence detection of prostate specific antigen. Biosens Bioelectron 87:881–887
Tarpani L, Latterini L (2017) Plasmonic effects of gold colloids on the fluorescence behavior of dye-doped SiO2 nanoparticles. J Lumin 185:192–199
Asselin J, Legros P, Grégoire A, Boudreau D (2016) Correlating metal-enhanced fluorescence and structural properties in Ag@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles. Plasmonics 11:1369–1376
Kong W, Zhang B, Li R, Wu F, Xu T, Wu H (2015) Plasmon enhanced fluorescence from quaternary Cu-In-Zn-S quantum dots. Appl Surf Sci 327:394–399
Ahmed SR, Hossain MA, Park JY, Kim S, Lee D, Suzuki T, Lee J, Park EY (2014) Metal-enhanced fluorescence on nanoporous gold leaf-based assay platform for virus detection. Biosens Bioelectron 58:33–39
Tian T, Zhong Y, Deng C, Wang H, He Y, Ge Y, Song G (2017) Brightly near-infrared to blue emission tunable silver-carbon dot nanohybrid for sensing of ascorbic acid and construction of logic gate. Talanta 162:135–142
Schmitz RD, Karolin JO, Geddes CD (2015) Plasmonic enhancement of intrinsic carbon nanodot emission. Chem Phys Lett 622:124–127
Lin S, Wang Z, Zhang Y, Huang Y, Yuan R, **ang W (2017) Easy synthesis of silver nanoparticles-orange emissive carbon dots hybrids exhibiting enhanced fluorescence for white light emitting diodes. J Alloy Compd 700:75–82
Zhang Y, Zhang J, Zhang J, Lin S, Huang Y, Yuan R, Liang X, **ang W (2017) Intense enhancement of yellow luminescent carbon dots coupled with gold nanoparticles toward white LED. Dyes Pigm 140:122–130
Aslan K, Badugu R, Lakowicz JR, Geddes CD (2005) Metal-enhanced fluorescence from plastic substrates. J Lumin 15(2):92–104
Aslan K, Geddes CD (2005) Microwave-accelerated metal-enhanced fluorescence (MAMEF): a new platform technology for ultra-fast and ultra-bright assays. Anal Chem 77(24):8057–8067
Dragan AI, Bishop ES, Casas-Finet JR, Strouse RJ, Schenerman MA, Geddes CD (2010) Metal-enhanced PicoGreen® fluorescence: application to fast and ultra-sensitive pg/ml DNA quantitation. J Immunol Methods 362:95–100
Dragan AI, Bishop ES, Casas-Finet JR, Strouse RJ, Schenerman MA, Geddes CD (2010) Metal-enhanced PicoGreen fluorescence: application for double-stranded DNA quantification. Anal Biochem 396:8–12
Eltzov E, Prilutsky D, Kushmaro A, Marks RS, Geddes CD (2009) Metal-enhanced bioluminescence: an approach for monitoring biological luminescent processes. Appl Phys Lett 94:083901
Bondre N, Zhang Y, Geddes CD (2011) Metal-enhanced fluorescence based calcium detection: greater than 100-fold increase in signal/noise using Fluo-3 or Fluo-4 and silver nanostructures. Sens Actuators B 152:82–87
Aslan K, Geddes CD (2010) Metal-enhanced fluorescence: progress towards a unified plasmon-fluorophore description. In: Geddes CD (ed) Metal-enhanced fluorescence. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, pp 1–23
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Knoblauch, R., Geddes, C.D. (2019). Review of Advances in Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence. In: Geddes, C. (eds) Reviews in Plasmonics 2017. Reviews in Plasmonics, vol 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18834-4_10
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18834-4_10
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-18833-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-18834-4
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)