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Widely Applicable AIE Chemosensor for On-Site Fast Detection of Drugs Based on the POSS-Core Dendrimer with the
Zhihang An1, Si Chen1, Xiaoqian Tong1
1College of Materials Science and Engineering , Zhejiang University of Technology , Hangzhou 310014 , China.
Abstract:
A novel fluorescence chemosensor that can quickly on-site detect synthetic drugs and undergo prescreening is first reported. An eight tetraphenylethene (TPE)-modified polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) dendrimer is designed and synthesized as an aggregation-induced emission (AIE) chemosensor, which exhibits great enhancement of unique monomer emission in pure tetrahydrofuran (THF) and AIE emission in THF/water, thanks to forming different self-assembly morphologies. In addition, POSS-TPE can sensitively detect methamphetamine and ketamine even in artificial saliva by noncovalent interaction forces. It has great potential to be a new widely applicable AIE chemosensor for aromatic molecules.
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