Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 308, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2020.127734
Keywords
Tetraphenylethylene; Zn2+; Cd2+; Hg2+; Sensor; Fluorescence
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21406036]
- Fujian Science and Technology Project [2019N0010]
- Fuzhou science and technology project [2018-G-44]
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This work report the first AIE-based fluorescence sensor that can simultaneously detect three kinds of IIB elements (Zn2+, Cd2+ and Hg2+) in aqueous media. The thiourea-bridging bis-tetraphenylethylene (Bis-TPE) was synthesized by the condensation reaction of formyltetraphenylethylene and bis-thiosemicarbazide derivative in 82 % yield. Due to the AIE effect in the aqueous medium, the long-wavelength fluorescence was observed at 500-526 nm. It displayed high selective Zn2+-sensing ability with red-to-green fluorescence change, selective Cd2+ -sensing ability with red-to-yellow fluorescence change and selective Hg2+ -sensing ability with fluorescence enhancement, respectively. Moreover, it could detect simultaneously Zn2+, Cd2+ and Hg2+ in the mixed solution of these three kinds of cations by the fluorescence change with the assistance of Cl(- )and ATP. The sensing mechanism was confirmed as 1:1 stoichiometric ratio between host and guest. The detection limits were as low as 8.22 x 10(-8) M, 2.36 x 10(-7) M and 3.43 x 10(-8) M for Zn2+, Cd2+ and Hg2+, respectively. These sensing abilities were applied as test strips for detecting Zn2+, Cd2+ and Hg2+, and were used for living cell imaging, implying a high efficient and simple method for analyzing trace IIB elements (Zn2+, Cd2+ and Hg2+ ) simultaneously in complex environments and living bodies.
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