Silica nanoparticles have been studied for several applications since they can be obtained from rice husk biomass. These nanoparticles are dope with different metals for industry applications or as adsorbent of impurities. Quantitative analysis of them is carried out for evaluating their efficiency as adsorbents. LIBS technique can analysis this kind of samples by fixing the powder for the study. Two different methods of fixation (pressed tablets and fixation by carboxymethyl cellulose) were studied in this work with silica nanoparticles doped with Cu and Fe. Calibration curves were made and a simple linear regression was performed for obtain the correlation coefficient and slope of the linear fit for each method and metal. Limits of detection were calculated and the prediction ability of the models were evaluated by the analyzed of “unknown” samples. Results showed that pressed tablets had better correlation coefficients and prediction ability than fixation by CMC. Also, this method showed a good repeatability and reproducibility. Despite that, fixation by CMC showed a better LOD for copper but for iron.
The capacity to tailor as wanted the fluorescence’s properties of a fluorophore increases the number of applications were the same fluorophore can be useful, like in imageology. One way to modify these properties is the presence of plasmonic fields nearby the fluorophore, and their origin can be the surface plasmons generated in metallic nanoparticles, like silver and gold, when these are excited. Usually fluorescence quantum yield is studied by conventional fluorescence spectroscopy techniques, but these are subjected to errors from reflection or refraction from the sample and a way to avoid these errors is to use indirect measurements techniques as in the case of thermal lens spectroscopy, which measures the change generated by the sample’s absorption of radiation, instead of measuring the absorption per se as regular spectroscopic methods. This technique is based in the photoinduced refraction index’s change. In this work we studied the effect that silver nanoparticles had in the fluorescence’s properties of ethanolic solutions of rhodamine B, specially its quantum yield, using a mode-mismatched thermal lens setup. We found that the presence of silver nanoparticles lowers the dye’s quantum yield between 4% and 38% which depends on the dye and nanoparticles’ concentrations. The thermal diffusivity’s values showed that the silver nanoparticles are increasing the non-radiant decay velocity of the rhodamine b, which is the reason why the quantum yield gets lower. These results not only gave us information about the studied samples, but also validate the capacity of a mode-mismatched thermal lens system to study fluorescence properties.
Metallic nanoparticles have been used as a way to tailor the fluorescence properties like quantum yield, but regular
fluorescence quantum yield measurements have to counter the reflection and dispersion of a sample for an accurate result.
Thermal lens spectroscopy is a good alternative to resolve this problem because doesn’t measure the fluorescence intensity
but the heat generated by absorption. We studied the changes induced by silver nanoparticles, generated by laser ablation,
in the fluorescence peak and quantum yield of Rhodamine B. We fund that the silver nanoparticles lowered the fluorescence
peak and quenched the fluorescence of the Rhodamine B and how much is quenched also depends on its concentration.
We report on a new source of coherent red-light with perspective applications in laser photodynamic therapy. The red light is generated through stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) process by acetone of a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG nanosecond laser radiation (532 nm). The Stokes transition is found at 630 nm and with spectral line narrowing similar to the pump one. When pumping using the radiation from a Rhodamine-6G Dye laser (560 - 575 nm), tuning between 640 and 670 nm is demonstrated. Conversion efficiencies up to 50% are reported.
Resonant molecular optical second harmonic generation (SHG) was obtained from(2, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18-Octaethyl- porphinato)M, with M equals none, vanadyl and Ni(II), adsorbed onto fused silica substrates. The polarization dependence of the SHG signals at 1064 nm allowed the determination of average molecular orientations. For the vanadium porphyrin the average angle between the long axis molecules and the surface normal was 38 degrees, while, for the Nickel porphyrin, and the non-metal porphyrin the angle was close to 0 degrees. These results can be understood in terms of the different symmetries of the molecules.
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