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Rapid handheld time-resolved circularly polarised luminescence photography camera for life and material sciences

De Rosa, Davide F.; Brook, Patrycja; Black, Dominic J.; Pal, Robert

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Authors

Davide De Rosa davide.f.de-rosa@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

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Dr Patrycja Brook patrycja.stachelek@durham.ac.uk
Royal Society University Research Fellow

Dominic Black dominic.j.black@durham.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Research Associate



Abstract

Circularly polarised luminescence (CPL) is gaining a rapidly increasing following and finding new applications in both life and material sciences. Spurred by recent instrumental advancements, the development of CPL active chiral emitters is going through a renaissance, especially the design and synthesis of CPL active luminescent lanthanide complexes owing to their unique and robust photophysical properties. They possess superior circularly polarised brightness (CPB) and can encode vital chiral molecular fingerprints in their long-lived emission spectrum. However, their application as embedded CPL emitters in intelligent security inks has not yet been fully exploited. This major bottleneck is purely hardware related: there is currently no suitable compact CPL instrumentation available, and handheld CPL photography remains an uncharted territory. Here we present a solution: an all solid-state small footprint CPL camera with no moving parts to facilitate ad hoc time-resolved enantioselective differential chiral contrast (EDCC) based one-shot CPL photography (CPLP).

Citation

De Rosa, D. F., Brook, P., Black, D. J., & Pal, R. (2023). Rapid handheld time-resolved circularly polarised luminescence photography camera for life and material sciences. Nature Communications, 14, Article 1537. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37329-8

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 13, 2023
Online Publication Date Mar 20, 2023
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date Apr 28, 2023
Publicly Available Date Apr 28, 2023
Journal Nature Communications
Publisher Nature Research
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 14
Article Number 1537
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37329-8
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1175451

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