The incorporation of rare earth complex into inorganic hybrid host materials has been extensively explored in recent studies
especially focused on SiO
2
-based materials
and the obtained materials were found to show high improvements for their thermal
mechanical properties and chemical stability. Furthermore
the materials are nanometer-sized luminescent
and become a research attractions as luminescence probes in various types of biological detection.In this paper
the fluorescent nanoparticles were prepared with pAB-DTPAA-APTEOS precursor
TEOS and EuCl3 as raw materials by means of water-in-oil (W/O) microemulsion through controlling copolymerization of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and 3-aminopropyl-triethyloxysilane (APTEOS). Fluorescent nanoparticles were characterized with TEM
UV-vis
IR and fluorescence techniques. It can be seen from the TEM image of the phosphor that the fluorescent nanoparticles are spherical and better particle dispersity
with average particle size of 40 nm. The IR spectra of Eu-pAB-DTPAA-AP-SiO
2
has two regions
which correspond to Si-C stretching (801 cm
-1
) and Eu-O stretching (471 cm
-1
)
this confirms the existence of complex Eu-pAB-DTPAA-AP-SiO
2
. In the UV-vis spectra
compared to the absorption spectrum of pAB-DTPAA
a red shift of the first peak (from 232 nm to 260 nm) was found in the spectrum of the precursor (pAB-DTPAA-APTEOS)
no change was observed for the major at 336 nm
which indicates the information of pAB-DTPAA-APTEOS. Furthermore
after EuCl3 was added to the solution of pAB-DTPAA-APTEOS
the red shift phenomena of the absorption peaks were observed. These changes indicate that complex Eu-pAB-DTPAA-AP-SiO
2
was formed in the pAB-DTPAA-APTEOS-EuCl3 solution. The excitation and emission spectra of the nanoparticles indicate that the excitation peak wavelength is at 260 nm and the emission peak wavelength is at 615 nm. When the nanoparticles were excited by 260 nm
only the emission lines of
5
D
0
→
7
F
J
(J= 1~4) of Eu
3+
were observed
with the hypersensitive
5
D
0
→
7
F
2
transition as the most prominently single radiation peak without splitting. As a new analytical reagent
the fluorescent nanoparticles combine the advantages of luminophore-doped silica nanoparticle probe and lanthanide latex fluorescence probe including smaller size (about 40 nm)
high hydrophilicity and biocompatibility. Furthermore
the amino groups directly introduced to the nanoparticles surface by using APTEOS in the preparation made the surface modification and bioconjugation of the nanoparticles easier. The particles are potential of good biocompatibility and can be excepted as efficient biological labels.
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