A fluorescent microporous crystalline dendrimer discriminates vapour molecules

Sae Nakajima; Ken Albrecht; Soh Kushida; Eiji Nishibori; Takashi Kitao; Takashi Uemura; Kimihisa Yamamoto; Uwe H F Bunz; Yohei Yamamoto

doi:10.1039/c7cc09342j

A fluorescent microporous crystalline dendrimer discriminates vapour molecules

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Mar 6;54(20):2534-2537. doi: 10.1039/c7cc09342j.

Authors

Sae Nakajima¹, Ken Albrecht, Soh Kushida, Eiji Nishibori, Takashi Kitao, Takashi Uemura, Kimihisa Yamamoto, Uwe H F Bunz, Yohei Yamamoto

Affiliation

¹ Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan. yamamoto@ims.tsukuba.ac.jp.

PMID: 29464238
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc09342j

Abstract

A self-assembled crystalline microporous dendrimer framework (MDF) exhibits novel turn-on and ratiometric fluorescence upon exposure to solvent vapours. The donor-acceptor character, combined with the large surface area (>650 m² g^-1), allows the MDF to discriminate vapours of volatile solvents with turn-on and colour change of photoluminescence.