The invention discloses an orange fluorescent
silicon nanodot, a preparation method thereof and an application of the orange fluorescent
silicon nanodot in mitochondrial imaging in living cells, the method comprises the following steps: S1, dissolving tetramethyl
rhodamine methyl ester in
ultrapure water, then adding N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane, uniformly stirring, and carrying out
hydrothermal reaction on the obtained mixture; and S2, cooling after the reaction is finished, purifying the product by using a
chromatographic column, eluting by using an eluent, collecting the eluent, and
drying to obtain the orange fluorescent
silicon nanodot. The silicon nanodot provided by the invention has the advantages of good light stability, high
quantum yield and the like, and can be successfully applied to positioning imaging of mitochondria in living cells; compared with common blue-green
fluorescence, orange
fluorescence has better tissue penetrating ability and background
interference resistance; the O-SiNDs prepared by the invention also has the property similar to that of lipophilic cations, and can realize high-specificity targeted marking on mitochondria of living cells.