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Xue Hu1, Jianshe Tang1, Yizhong Shen2
1The Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Wastewater Reuse of Anhui Province, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, 230601, China.
Abstract:
A tunable interaction between Fe-MOFs (MIL-53(Fe) and kojic acid (KA)-functional copper nanoclusters (Cu NCs) has been studied. When introducing MIL-53(Fe), the Fe-O bonds can be formed between the KA on the surface of Cu NCs and MIL-53(Fe), which will induce the electron transfer from Cu NCs to MIL-53(Fe) and fluorescence quenching of Cu NCs. By introducing S2- it occupies the Fe-site of MIL-53(Fe) and impede the interaction between Cu NCs and MIL-53(Fe), rendering a "turn-on" fluorescence signal. Thus, the KA-Cu NC/MIL-53(Fe) pair is designed as fluorescence sensing for S2-, which displays a low detection limit of 18.6 nM and a wide linear detection range from 0.05 to 5 µM by fitting the fluorescence intensity at maximum wavelength of 500 nm with excitation at 400 nm. It was also applied to monitor S2- in water samples and food additives with satisfactory results, demonstrating the practicability and reliability of the sensing strategy based on the tuable MOF-Cu NC interactions.
