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Valeria B López-Cervantes1, Marco L Martínez1,2, Juan L Obeso1,3,4
1Laboratorio de Fisicoquímica y Reactividad de Superficies (LaFReS), Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n, CU, Coyoacán, 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico. diego.solis@unam.mx.
Abstract:
In this study, the potential of the metal-organic framework UTSA-16(Zn) as a fluorescence detector for SO2 is explored. The material was synthesized and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and its fluorescence behavior was analyzed before and after SO2 exposure. A significant decrease in fluorescence intensity was observed and a LOD of 1.79 mM (∼114.6 ppm) was obtained. With the help of time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) experiments and X-ray photoelectron (XPS) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy, a static quenching mechanism due to the formation of a non-fluorescent complex in the ground state (GSC) was elucidated.
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