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Sensing of Micellar Microenvironment with Dual Fluorescent Probe, Triazolylpyrene (TNDMBPy)

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We report a dual fluorescent triazolylpyrene (TNDMB Py) as an efficient fluorescent light-up probe of various micellar microenvironments. The absorption spectra of TNDMB Py in an aqueous solution of varying surfactant concentration, CTAB, SDS and TX-100 showed that as the surfactant concentration was increased the absorbance increased with no shift in wavelength maxima. The increase of absorbance in each surfactant solution with increase in surfactant concentration was due to the enhanced solubilization of TNDMB Py in surfactant solutions. Our investigations based on steady state and time resolved fluorescence techniques showed that the probe reports the microenvironment of ionic surfactant solutions (CTAB and SDS) via dual emission (LE and ICT) at low surfactant concentration. The ICT band showed a blue shifting pattern with enhanced intensity that disappeared as the concentration of surfactant increases (> 1 mM for CTAB and > 3 mM for SDS). In non-ionic surfactant (Triton X-100) solution, the fluorophore showed dual emission with dominant ICT behaviour over LE emission at low concentration (up to 0.35 mM). In reverse micelle we observed a blue shifted ICT band with no LE band with increasing molar concentration of water. We found 100 nm blue shifting when we moved from R = 0 to R = 7, where R is the molar ratio of water to TX-100 (R = [H2O]/[TX-100]). The blue shifting of ICT band is because of the movement of the probe from hydrophilic core to hydrophobic core (surface) of the reverse micelle. Thus from the steady-state fluorescence study it was observed that the ICT band of the probe, TNDMB Py was more influenced by the micellar environment in comparison to the LE band. This difference in behaviour of the fluorophore is probably because of varying extent of hydrophobic/hydrogen bonding interactions experienced by the probe and its relative disposition inside the various micellar nanocores.

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Authors thank Department of Science and Technology [DST: SR/SI/OC-69/2008], Govt. of India, for a financial support. R. K. thanks IIT Guwahati, India, for a fellowship.

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Bag, S.S., Kundu, R. Sensing of Micellar Microenvironment with Dual Fluorescent Probe, Triazolylpyrene (TNDMBPy). J Fluoresc 23, 929–938 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-013-1218-6

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