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Lasheng Jiang1, Ke Tang, Xiaoping Ding
1Key Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry of Environment, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China; School of Chemistry and Environment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China.
Abstract:
Crown ether carboxylic acids constitute main building blocks for the synthesis of terbium containing covalent cross-linked luminescent materials. Both the complexes and the hybrid nanomaterials could exhibit remarkable green emissions in pure water. More importantly, they were found to have a profound effect on the luminescence responses to arginine compared with glutamic acid, histidine, tryptophan, threonine, tyrosine and phenylalanine in aqueous environment. The present study provided the possibility of using a host-guest mechanism as a way of signal transduction based on lanthanide supramolecular hybrid materials.
