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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 1717-1724Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201500299
Keywords
acid vapor; fluorescence sensors; nanofibers; organogelation; phenanthroimidazole
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21374041]
- Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials [SKLSSM2015014]
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Nanofibers based on phenanthroimidazole derivatives PCC, PDC, and PSC were fabricated by organogelation processes, and their fluorescence sensory properties towards acid were investigated. It was found that the emission of PCC in the nanofiber-based film could be quenched significantly upon exposure to gaseous TFA due to the formation of protonated PCC, in which ICT (intramolecular charge transfer) would occur. On the other hand, TFA vapor led to the emitting colors of PDC and PSC in the nanofiber-based films to turn to yellow and green from sky blue and blue, respectively. Additionally, we found that the decay times of PCC were 0.1s and 1.9s in probing the saturated vapor of TFA in nanofiber-based film and in spin-coated film, respectively. The results suggested that the high surface-to-volume ratio and large interspace in the nanofiber-based networks favored the enhanced adsorption, accumulation, and diffusion of gaseous molecules, resulting in such a high performance.
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