Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.121, No.4, 780-786, 2017
Temperature Dependence of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion in Phospholipid Membranes
Understanding the temperature dependency of triplet triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is important for optimizing biological applications of upconversion. Here the temperature dependency of red-to-blue TTA-UC is reported in a variety of neutral PEGylated phospholipid liposomes. In these systems a delicate balance between lateral diffusion rate of the dyes, annihilator aggregation, and sensitizer self-quenching leads to a volcano plot, with the maximum upconversion intensity occurring near the main order disorder transition temperature of the lipid membrane.