Title: Spectroscopic Study of Singlet Oxygen in Cells and Model Systems Author: Marek Scholz Department: Department of Chemical Physics and Optics Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Roman Dědic, Ph.D., KChFO Abstract: Singlet oxygen (1O2), the first excited state of molecular oxygen, plays many important roles in nature and technology. The work is aimed at development of novel methods for monitoring of 1O2 in cells and other biological samples. Two main ap- proaches were employed: direct detection of the very weak near-infrared phospho- rescence of 1O2, and detection of Singlet Oxygen-Feedback Delayed Fluorescence (SOFDF), which is the emission from the photosensitizer induced by energy transfer from 1O2. The first part of the thesis introduces the basic concepts of photophysics and photochemistry of 1O2: its generation, deactivation, applications, and overview of detection methods. The second part presents the experimental results. Wide-field mi- crospectroscopic detection of 1O2 phosphorescence enabled us to acquire 1O2-based images and near-infrared spectra from single cells incubated with photosensitizers. However, the direct detection suffers from the inherently very low phosphorescence quantum yield. It is shown that SOFDF may overcome this problem and become a promising alternative tool for studies of 1O2 and...

Orientadores: José Euclides Stipp Paterniani, Cristiano de Mello Gallep / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T21:52:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_SamuelRicardodos_D.pdf: 51294263 bytes, checksum: 55a8bb93513a62aa29e85fe9467412c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Giardia spp. e Cryptosporidium spp. são organismos desafiadores em monitoramento ambiental, podendo afetar os seres humanos e os animais com grandes impactos na saúde pública. Métodos para detectar esses organismos são descritos na literatura ¿ p.ex.: o método EPA 1623.1. No entanto, muitos não são capazes de detectar a viabilidade destes parasitos. Este trabalho avaliou o uso de marcadores fluorescentes combinados com a técnica de detecção de fluorescência retardada na detecção de viabilidade de Giardia intestinalis e Cryptosporidium parvum. Testes de incubação com 6-carboxifluorceina-succinimidil-diacetato-éster (CFDA-SE), C12-resazurina e SYTOX Green foram desenvolvidos com cistos de G. intestinalis e oocistos de C. parvum. Medidas de fluorescência retardada em câmara escura projetada e em dispositivo comercial foram aplicados em amostras purificadas e concentradas de G. intestinalis após incubação com CFDA-SE. Grupos contendo cistos vivos e infecciosos, mortos a 100° C, estressados com luz UV-C e envelhecidos foram analisados via fluorescência retardada e microscopia de epifluorescência em oito séries experimentais. Os resultados demonstram que (oo)cistos vivos e infecciosos não são marcados com os marcadores fluorescentes. Dupla marcação em (oo)cistos mortos é observada após 30 minutos de incubação com C12-resazurina 5,0 ?M e SYTOX Green 100 nM. (Oo)cistos mortos apresentam marcação verde após incubação de CFDA-SE 5,0 ?M. O envelhecimento da amostra foi acompanhado pelo aumento da taxa de marcação celular com cistos apresentando ~50% de marcação aos 30 dias de idade e ~100% aos 50 dias de idade. Testes com fluorescência retardada demonstram que cistos vivos e com idade inferior a 20 dias apresentam intensidades superiores aos cistos mortos e estressados após excitação com 365 nm. A excitação com 365 nm apresentou correlação R2 > 95% após análise de cinética de decaimento com modelo exponencial de segunda ordem. Os dados indicam que o decaimento da fluorescência retardada é acompanhado por duas componentes k1 e k2 onde k2 = 5?k1, estando estas conectadas com as condições fisiológicas da Giardia. O procedimento pode ser efetuado em 10 passos laboratoriais em aproximadamente 60 minutos de análise. A fluorescência retardada apresenta futuro promissor na análise de viabilidade de parasitos em amostras purificadas / Abstract: Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. are challenging and important organisms in modern environmental monitoring. These protozoa can affect humans and animals seriously, as reflection of sanitation problems in water quality control, with huge impact over economics and public health. Methods to detect such organisms are well described in literature - i.e. the EPA Method 1623.1 and AWWA 2012. But those ones are not able to detect infectivity. For that, the usual procedures include infection of animal model leading to at least one week for confirming infectivity. Some research with dye probes are being developed in order to provide useful, reliable and low cost procedures for detection of protozoa viability, i.e. enabling to distinguish dead samples cells from living ones. This work describes the screening tests for viability detection of protozoa samples - Giardia intestinalis and Cryptosporidium parvum - using carboxifluorcein-succinimidyl-diacetate-ester (CFDA-SE), C12-resazurin and SYTOX Green. Living, heat-killed and UV-C stressed (oo)cysts were analyzed using these chemical probes. G. intestinalis in concentrated samples and stained with CFDA-SE were analysed by fluorescence imaging as well as by delayed fluorescence (DF) after UV-A and white-light excitation. The weak DF profiles were detected in photon-counting setups, in 8 series of tests for intact, for heat-killed and for UV-C-stressed samples are shown. Results show that fresh, i.e. living and viable (oo)cysts cannot be stained by the mentioned neither with CFDA-SE nor C12-resazurin and SYTOX Green dyes. Double-marked (oo)cysts are observed when C12-resazurin and SYTOX Green are applied to old cysts as well to dead ones. Aged samples show increasing number of stained organisms: 30-day-old with ~50% while samples older than 50 days with almost 100% marked. Intact samples present stronger fluorescence and DF than the stressed ones, with good replication after UV-A excitation. After excitation @365nm samples present DF better fitted by double exponential decay kinetics, with the decay constant k2 five times higher than the k1 constant. The procedure can be easily reproduced in 10 steps, taking around 1h of laboratorial work with purified samples / Doutorado / Agua e Solo / Doutor em Engenharia Agrícola

Maleimide based highly luminescent material Cbz-MI with donor acceptor donor (D-A-D) backbone has been synthesized and characterized. An organic light emitting diode fabricated using this material as emitting layer exhibited EQE of 2.5% in the yellow region of visible spectrum. Due to the small energy gap of materials emitting in this region of spectrum, EQE of OLED is usually limited by various non-radiative decays and high EQE of OLED using this material proves that most of the nonradiative decay pathways have been avoided by the careful design of molecule and device structure. Although Cbz-MI did not show TADF properties, but if tailored with right electron donor along with maleimide as an acceptor, such derivatives may exhibit TADF properties

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(農学) / 甲第22486号 / 農博第2390号 / 新制||農||1075(附属図書館) / 学位論文||R2||N5266(農学部図書室) / 京都大学大学院農学研究科森林科学専攻 / (主査)教授 髙野 俊幸, 教授 和田 昌久, 教授 河本 晴雄 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Agricultural Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

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Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have already been shown to have great potential to play an important role in the future of clean energy generation (organic solar cells) and provide energy efficient lighting (organic light-emitting diodes, OLED). Prior research has found that the light-emission efficiency of OLED is severely limited by the magnetic state (technically the spin-configuration) of the light-emission process. In this thesis, we work on the processes using external magnetic fields that can overcome these magnetic limitations. A major focus of this research is to enhance the performance of OLED, while at the same time to unravel the scientific mechanisms by which magnetic fields act on OSCs devices. Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is a next-generation OLED emission technology which enables nearly 100% light-emission efficiency without using heavy precious metals. TADF characteristics depend on the probability of reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) from the triplet excited states (T1) to singlet excited states (S1). The conversion (T1 to S1) process depends strongly on spin dynamics, thus we predict a dramatic magnetic field effects (MFEs) in such TADF OLED devices. In subsequent experiments we observed that changes in TADF devices due to various forms of electrical stress can lead to enormous increases in magnetic field effects (MFEs) on the current (> 1400%) and electroluminescence (> 4000%). Our work provides a flexible and inexpensive pathway towards magnetic functionality and field sensitivity in current organic devices. Such OLED pave the way for novel magnetic sensitive OSCs devices with integrated optical, electronic and magnetic characteristics. Organic magnetoresistance (OMAR) has been observed to alter the current and efficiency of OLED without any ferromagnetic components. Here we utilizes slight alterations to the device properties, the addition of a radical-doped functional layer, in which the spin-relaxing effects of localized nuclear spins and electronic spins interfere, to address the assumption about the importance of the hyperfine interaction and to attempt to differentiate between the different models for OMAR. A feature where the magnitude of OMAR exhibits a plateau over a wide range of doping fraction was observed at all temperatures investigated. This phenomenon is well explained by a theory in which a single dopant spin strongly interacts, by exchange, with one of the bottleneck sites. A similar can be used to explain the efficiency increases observed in organic solar cells for certain doping fractions.

Photon upconversion by sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation (UC-STTA) is a photophysical process that facilitates the conversion of two low-energy photons into a single high-energy photon. A low-energy photon is absorbed by a sensitizer molecule that produces a triplet excited state which is transferred to an emitter molecule. When two emitter triplet states encounter each other, TTA can take place to produce a singlet excited state which decays by emission of a high-energy (upconverted) photon. While traditional single-threshold dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have a maximum efficiency limit of ca. 30%, it has been predicted theoretically that implementation of UC-STTA in DSSCs could increase that efficiency to more than 40%. A possible way to implement UC-STTA into DSSCs, would be to replace the standard sensi- tized nanostructured TiO2 photoanodes by upconverting ones loaded with emitter molecules. Following TTA, the excited emitter molecule would be quenched by injection of a high-energy electron into the conduction band of the TiO2. To explore the practical aspects of this strategy for a highly efficient DSSC, in this thesis UC-STTA is studied in model systems based on nanostructured ZrO2 films. These ZrO2 films are a good proxy for the TiO2 films used in DSSCs, and allow for relatively easy optimization and study of UC-STTA by allowing measurements of the upconverted photons without the complications of electron injection into the film. Herein it is experimentally proven that UC-STTA is viable on nanostructured metal oxide films under non-coherent irradiation with intensities comparable to sunlight. Two different system architectures are studied, differing in the position of the molecular components involved in the UC-STTA mechanism. Both architectures have the emitter molecules adsorbed onto the ZrO2 surface, but the sensitizers are positioned either in solution around the nanostructure, or co-adsorbed with the emitters onto the ZrO2 surface. A set of challenges in the study and optimization of the UC-STTA process is identified for each type of system. Proposals are also given for how to further improve the understanding and UC-STTA optimization of these systems toward application in DSSCs to overcome the present solar energy conversion efficiency limit.

Cette thèse porte sur la conception, la synthèse et la caractérisation de nouveaux dérivés accepteurs d'électrons. Elle se concentre sur l’étude des dérivés de la 1,2,4,5-tétrazine, mais contient également l’étude de dérivés du benzonitrile, précurseurs typiques de la préparation des 1,2,4,5-tétrazines et de dérivés de la pyridazine, les produits dérivés de la réaction de Diels – Alder à Demande Inverse (IEDDA) des dérivés de la tétrazine. De plus, les dérivés de 1,2,3,4-thiatriazole, en tant que produits imprévus de la synthèse de Pinner modifiée, sont également étudiés de manière approfondie. En raison des états de transfert de charge (CT) introduits dans le système donneur-accepteur, les dérivés préparés accepteur d'électrons présentent en général des propriétés photophysiques et électrochimiques intéressantes, et ont donc un intérêt particulier pour l'électronique organique.Le point culminant de cette thèse est le développement de méthodologies synthétiques dans chaque chapitre. En résumé, le chapitre 2 met en évidence une nouvelle approche synthétique sans métal pour les 1,2,4,5-tétrazines 3-monosubstituées, qui sont très utiles pour la chimie du click bioorthogonal. Le chapitre 3 décrit une stratégie de synthèse élaborée pour de nouveaux dérivés de benzonitrile donneur-accepteur qui présentent de la TADF, de l’ AIE et du mécanochromisme. Le chapitre 4 présente une étude détaillée de la réaction de couplage croisé Buchwald – Hartwig en tant que méthodologie de synthèse importante dans la synthèse de molécules de tétrazine. Le chapitre 5 décrit l'étude de la réaction à l'IEDDA comme un outil synthétique utile pour préparer des dérivés de pyridazine. Le chapitre 6 présente une nouvelle synthèse pratique de 1,2,3,4-thiatriazoles à partir de composés nitriles. / This PhD thesis deals with the design, synthesis and characterization of novel electron-acceptor derivatives. It is focused on the study of 1,2,4,5-tetrazine derivatives, but also involves the study of benzonitrile derivatives which are the typical precursors for the preparation of 1,2,4,5-tetrazines, and pyridazine derivatives which are the products derived from Inverse Electron Demand Diels–Alder (IEDDA) reaction of tetrazine derivatives. Moreover, 1,2,3,4-thiatriazole derivatives, as unpredicted products from modified Pinner synthesis, are also elaborately investigated. Due to the charge-transfer (CT) states introduced in the donor-acceptor system, the prepared electron-acceptor derivatives exhibit interesting photophysical and electrochemical properties, and therefore are of particular interest in organic electronics.The highlight of this thesis is the development of synthetic methodologies in each chapter. To sum up, Chapter 2 demonstrates a novel metal-free synthetic approach to 3-monosubstituted 1,2,4,5-tetrazines, which are highly useful for bioorthogonal click chemistry. Chapter 3 describes an elaborative synthetic strategy for novel donor-acceptor benzonitrile derivatives which exhibit TADF, AIE and mechanochromism. Chapter 4 presents a detailed study of Buchwald–Hartwig cross-coupling reaction as an important synthetic methodology in the synthesis of tetrazine molecules. Chapter 5 described the study of IEDDA reaction as a useful synthetic tool to prepare pyridazine derivatves. Chapter 6 presented a novel convenient one-pot synthesis of 1,2,3,4-thiatriazoles directly from nitrile compounds.

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) has been proposed as a pathway to achieve high efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) without the use of heavy metal atoms in molecular structures. Many different factors can be decisive for efficient light emission from TADF emitters. However, a complete picture of the working mechanisms behind TADF is still missing and further research exploring novel material and device ideas is required. This thesis aims to extend the understanding of TADF emitter and OLED design considerations by investigating photophysical properties of novel materials as well as fabricating, optimizing and characterizing devices. TADF emitters have great potential of being used in OLEDs because they allow for high quantum efficiencies by utilizing triplet states via reverse intersystem crossing (RISC). In small molecules this is done by spatially separating the frontier orbitals, forming an intramolecular charge-transfer state (iCT) and leading to a small energy difference between lowest excited singlet and triplet states (Δ𝐸ST). In polymer emitters, sufficient frontier orbital separation is harder to achieve, and typical strategies usually include adding known TADF units as sidechains onto a polymer backbone. In this thesis, a novel pathway of TADF polymer design is explored. A shift from a non-TADF monomer to TADF oligomers is explored. The monomer shows non-TADF emission and the delayed emission is shown to be of triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) origin. An iCT state is formed already in the dimer, leading to a much more efficient TADF emission. This is confirmed by an almost two-fold increase of photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), a decrease in the delayed luminescence lifetime and the respective spectral line shapes of the molecules. Recently, intermolecular effects between small-molecule TADF emitters have been given more attention, revealing strong solid-state solvation or aggregation induced changes of sample performance. Implications of this on device performance are not yet fully covered. A thorough investigation of a novel TADF emitter 5CzCO2Me is conducted. Steady-state emission spectra reveal a luminescence redshift with increasing emitter concentration in a small molecule host. In all investigated concentrations, the emission profile remains the same, thus the redshift is attributed to the solid-state solvation effect. The highest photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) is achieved in the 20 wt% sample, reaching 66 %. The best OLED in terms of current-voltage-luminance and external quantum efficiency parameters is the device with 60 wt% emitter concentration, reaching maximal EQE values of 7.5 %. It is shown that the emitter transports holes and that charge carrier recombination does not take place on the bandgap of the host, but rather, a mixed host-guest concentration dependent recombination is seen. The hole transporting properties of 5CzCO2Me allows for a new dimension in tuning the device performance by controlling the emitter concentration.

Biological invasion has become a major threat to economy, ecology, global biodiversity and ecosystem function of aquatic ecosystems. The main aim of the thesis was to study the effects of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha), a versatile invasive species, on phytoplankton dynamics and ecosystem function of lakes. In a first attempt, I compared the density of Dreissena and the physicochemical data of ecosystems that it invaded among North American and European lakes to identify important factors in its invasion success. Secondly, I investigated the impact of zebra mussels on phytoplankton community composition in a natural lake. Thirdly, I evaluated whether zebra mussel feeding behavior were affected by the presence of predatory waterborne cues. Finally, I examined the effect of Dreissena on seston stoichiometry. A Generalized Additive Model revealed that a joint effect of surface area, mean depth, total phosphorus and calcium concentrations can explain the variability in Dreissena density. Selective grazing by zebra mussels varied in relation to seasonal phytoplankton dynamics. Risk cues released by predators affected both feeding rate and prey selection of the mussels and had cascading indirect effects on phytoplankton biomass and community structure. I found that the flux in nutrients caused by differences in zebra mussel consumption lead to a variation in phytoplankton nutrient limitation. The flexibility of zebra mussel feeding behavior and variation in susceptibility among phytoplankton groups to mussel ingestion indicate that invading zebra mussels could alter phytoplankton community composition of lakes and have important ecosystem consequences. The results of this thesis contribute to the growing evidence that predators indirectly affect resource dynamics and food web structure through their non-lethal effects on consumers. The results suggested that zebra mussel can indirectly both reduce and increase the energy transfer efficiency from primary producers to upper trophic levels in the pelagic and benthic food webs, respectively.