The spatial distribution of the photostability of thionine in zeolite L nanochannels investigated by Photobleaching Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

Dye photobleaching is a photochemical reaction that can be investigated locally using fluorescence microscopy techniques. In this study, a user-friendly computational tool to assist photobleaching experiments called Photobleaching Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (PbLIM) is presented. With this tool it is possible to recover the photobleaching kinetics spatially, where a photobleaching lifetime is generated for each pixel of the image. Our model was applied to the photobleaching process of thionine encapsulated into the one-dimensional nano-channels of Zeolite L (ZL), from where we gained insight into the molecular oxygen distribution inside the ZL channels, as well as the detailed photobleaching of the confined thionine.

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