Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 11, Pages 13540-13550Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c01470
Keywords
periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs); bipyridine; lanthanides; optical thermometry; toxicity
Funding
- Ghent University
- FWO-Vlaanderen [G04319]
- BOF UGent [01IO3618, BAS094-18]
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2,2'-Bipyridine is the most widely used chelating ligand for developing metal complexes in coordination and supramolecular chemistry. Here, we present a series of three bipyridine periodic mesoporous organosilicas (BPy-PMOs) grafted with lanthanide beta-diketonate complex for the purpose of obtaining thermochromic materials, which can be employed as ratiometric temperature sensors. Such thermometers are based on the ratio of two emission intensity peaks and are not affected by factors such as alignment or optoelectronic drift of the excitation source and detectors. Three thermometric systems are studied: Dy-Dy, Tb-Sm, and Tb-Eu with the first two showing very attractive performance. For the first two systems, some of the best reported to date relative sensitivities are observed. In the BPy-PMOp Dy(acac)(3) system, it is very unusual that the I-4(15/2) -> H-6(15/2) transition is already occupied at low temperature such as 200 K, which influences its thermometric behavior. The Tb-Sm shows excellent performance in the physiological range and when suspended in water. We have additionally confirmed that the BPy-PMO hybrid materials lack toxicity to human cells, proving them very promising candidates for biomedical thermometric applications.
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