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NanoPOP: Solution-Processable Fluorescent Porous Organic Polymer for Highly Sensitive, Selective, and Fast Naked Eye
Yankai Li1,2, Yulong He1, Fangyuan Guo1
1School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , 130 Meilong Road , Shanghai 200237 , China.
Abstract:
Fluorescence-based detection is one of the most efficient and cost-effective methods for detecting hazardous, aqueous Hg2+. We designed a fluorescent porous organic polymer (TPA-POP-TSC), with a "fluorophore" backbone and a thiosemicarbazide "receptor" for Hg2+-targeted sensing. Nanometer-sized TPA-POP-TSC spheres (nanoPOP) were synthesized under mini-emulsion conditions and showed excellent solution processability and dispersity in aqueous solution. The nanoPOP sensor exhibits exceptional sensitivity (Ksv = 1.01 × 106 M-1) and outstanding selectivity for Hg2+ over other ions with rapid response and full recyclability. Furthermore, the nanoPOP material can be easily coated onto a paper substrate to afford naked eye-based Hg2+-detecting test strips that are convenient, inexpensive, fast, highly sensitive, and reusable. Our design takes advantage of the efficient and selective capture of Hg2+ by thiosemicarbazides (binding energy = -29.84 kJ mol-1), which facilitates electron transfer from fluorophore to bound receptor, quenching the sensor's fluorescence.
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