Unique emissive behavior of combustion-derived particles under illumination with femtosecond pulsed near-infrared laser light.

ABSTRACT: Exposure to combustion-derived particles (CDPs), such as carbonaceous particulate matter (PM), has adverse effects on human health. Hence, selective detection of these particles in biological environments is required to understand their toxicity. The optical detection of carbonaceous PM is possible in biological samples based on white light (WL) emission under illumination with a femtosecond (fs) pulsed near-infrared (NIR) laser. However, it is unclear if common non-CDPs in ambient PM, such as silica and metal oxides, can interfere with CDP detection when illuminated using a fs-pulsed NIR laser. Here, we show that WL emission, when illuminated with a fs-pulsed NIR laser, is observed only for CDPs amongst other common air pollution particles. We report that the intense WL emission from CDPs

SUBMITTER: Aslam I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9417851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature