PDMPO: a specific silicon or silica, pH sensitive fluorescent probe?

Patricia Merdy (1) , Cyril Neytard (1) , Jean-Dominique Meunier (2) , Yves Lucas (1)

1 IM2NP - Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence
2 CEREGE - Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement

To understand Si behavior in soils and plants, we evaluated the use of PDMPO that was supposed to be a Si-specific, pH-dependent fluorescence marker. We found that the PDMPO fluorescence is neither Si-specific nor pH dependent.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Patricia Merdy, Cyril Neytard, Jean-Dominique Meunier, Yves Lucas. PDMPO: a specific silicon or silica, pH sensitive fluorescent probe?. RSC Advances, 2020, 10 (51), pp.31003-31011. ⟨10.1039/d0ra05108j⟩. ⟨insu-04088248⟩