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Jiannan Xiao1, Jingjuan Liu1, Meiying Liu1
1Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Chemistry and Physics of Rare Earth Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Inner Mongolia University , Hohhot 010021 , China.
Abstract:
A unique three-dimensional luminescent metal-organic framework (Cd-MOFs), [Cd(tpbpc)2]·2H2O·DMF (Htpbpc = 4'-[4,2';6',4″]-terpyridin-4'-yl-biphenyl-4-carboxylic acid; DMF = dimethylformamide), was synthesized and structurally characterized; it exhibits excellent luminescent property and structural stability in aqueous solutions. Interestingly, an unparalleled luminescence-silent system CrO42-@Cd-MOFs was successfully fabricated by postsynthetic modification of metal-organic frameworks. This luminescence-silent system represents a highly selective and sensitive turn-on luminescent responding to ascorbic acid. First, this advanced fluorescent sensor displays excellent performance for CrO42- ions with a quenching of fluorescence intensity originating from fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) mechanism. What's more, the fluorescent intensity of CrO42-@Cd-MOFs system can be recovered (turn-on) for sensing ascorbic acid because of the elimination of FRET process. Such a novel fabrication strategy should offer the guidance to develop various MOFs-implicated luminescence-silent systems as "turn-on" sensors for detection of specific chemicals.
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