title: Non-emissive colour filters for fluorescence detection.
abstract: We describe a simple technique for fabricating non-emissive colour filters based on the sensitisation of a highly porous nanostructured metal-oxide film with a monolayer of dye molecules. Ultrafast electron transfer at the oxide/dye interface induces efficient quenching of photogenerated excitons in the dye, reducing the photoluminescence quantum yield by many orders of magnitude. The resultant filters exhibit much less autofluorescence than conventional colour filters (where the chromophore is dispersed in a glass or polymer host), and are a viable low cost alternative to interference filters for microfluidic devices and other applications requiring non-emissive filtering.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mikihide
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: Gihan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ryu
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xiaoe
authors.forename: Tai Kyu
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: deMello
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: deMello
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry; D016062:Porosity; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium