A luminescent dye@MOF platform: emission fingerprint relationships of volatile organic molecules

Ming-Jie Dong; Min Zhao; Sha Ou; Chao Zou; Chuan-De Wu

doi:10.1002/anie.201307331

A luminescent dye@MOF platform: emission fingerprint relationships of volatile organic molecules

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Feb 3;53(6):1575-9. doi: 10.1002/anie.201307331. Epub 2014 Jan 2.

Authors

Ming-Jie Dong¹, Min Zhao, Sha Ou, Chao Zou, Chuan-De Wu

Affiliation

¹ Center for Chemistry of High-Performance and Novel Materials, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027 (P. R. China).

PMID: 24382789
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307331

Abstract

Self-assembly of luminescent moieties into porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has generated many luminescent platforms for probing volatile organic molecules (VOMs). However, most of those explored thus far have only been based on the luminescence intensity of one transition, which is not efficient for probing different VOMs. We have synthesized a luminescent MOF material containing 1D nanotube channels, and further developed a luminescent dye@MOF platform to realize the probing of different VOMs by tuning the energy transfer efficiency between two different emissions. The dye@MOF platform exhibits excellent fingerprint correlation between the VOM and the emission peak-height ratio of ligand to dye moieties. The dye@MOF sensor is self-calibrating, stable, and instantaneous, thus the approach should be a very promising strategy to develop luminescent materials with unprecedented practical applications.

Keywords: fingerprint relationships; luminescence; metal-organic frameworks; relative emission; sensors.