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Long Liu1, Shaoyun She1, Qihuan Chen1
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, Guangdong, China.
Abstract:
As a common heavy metal pollutant, Cu2+ seriously endangers environmental safety and human health. A novel triphenylamine-based Schiff base fluorescent probe (triphenylamine-diaminopyridine, TPA-DAP) was synthesized with diaminopyridine as the recognition unit. It exhibits high selectivity, rapid response, large stokes shift, low detection limit of 1.04 μM, obvious fluorescence quenching, and visible color changes toward Cu2+. Cu2+ binds with TPA-DAP to form a stable 2:1 complex and quenches fluorescence through electronic and paramagnetic effects, which can be reversed by vitamin C. The sensing mechanism was verified by HRMS, NMR, and DFT calculations. TPA-DAP achieves effective Cu2+ detection in actual water samples. The prepared TPA-DAP@PVA/SA composite membrane establishes a fluorescence-afterglow dual-mode platform for portable visual on-site Cu2+ detection.
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