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dc.contributor.author | Harada, T. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lincoln, S. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kee, T. | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016; 18(40):28125-28133 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1463-9076 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1463-9084 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/102906 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Curcumin is a yellow polyphenol with multiple medicinal effects. These effects, however, are limited due to its poor aqueous stability and solubility. A hydrogel of 3% octadecyl randomly substituted polyacrylate (PAAC18) has been shown to provide high aqueous stability for curcumin under physiological conditions, offering a route for photodynamic therapy. In this study, the excited-state photophysics of curcumin in the PAAC18 hydrogel is investigated using a combination of femtosecond transient absorption and fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy. The transient absorption results reveal a multiexponential decay in the excited-state kinetics with fast (1 ps & 15 ps) and slow (110 ps & ≈5 ns) components. The fast decay component exhibits a deuterium isotope effect with D2O in the hydrogel, indicating that the 15 ps decay component is attributable to excited-state intramolecular hydrogen atom transfer of curcumin in the PAAC18 hydrogel. In addition, solvent reorganisation of excited-state curcumin is investigated using multiwavelength femtosecond fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy. The results show that the dominant solvation response (τ = 0.08 ps) is a fast inertial motion owing to the presence of bulk-like water in the vicinity of the hydrophobic octadecyl substituents of the PAAC18 hydrogel. The results also show an additional response with longer time constants of 1 and 6 ps, which is attributable to translational diffusion of confined water molecules in the three-dimensional, cross-linking network of the octadecyl substituents of PAAC18. Overall, we show that excited-state intramolecular hydrogen atom transfer and solvent reorganisation are major photophysical events for curcumin in the PAAC18 hydrogel. | - |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Takaaki Harada, Stephen F. Lincoln and Tak W. Kee | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry | - |
dc.rights | This journal is © the Owner Societies 2016 | - |
dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6cp05648b | - |
dc.subject | Curcumin | - |
dc.subject | Hydrogels | - |
dc.subject | Solvents | - |
dc.subject | Spectrometry, Fluorescence | - |
dc.subject | Solubility | - |
dc.subject | Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions | - |
dc.title | Excited-state dynamics of the medicinal pigment curcumin in a hydrogel | - |
dc.type | Journal article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1039/c6cp05648b | - |
dc.relation.grant | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0878100 | - |
dc.relation.grant | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LE0989747 | - |
dc.relation.grant | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110103177 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
dc.identifier.orcid | Kee, T. [0000-0002-4907-4663] | - |
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