Dye@bio-MOF-1 Composite as a Dual-Emitting Platform for Enhanced Detection of a Wide Range of Explosive Molecules

  • Chen Wang
  • , Li Tian
  • , Wei Zhu
  • , Shiqiang Wang
  • , Peng Wang
  • , Yun Liang
  • , Wanlin Zhang
  • , Hongwei Zhao
  • , Guangtao Li*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

By incorporating a cationic dye within a metal-organic framework (MOF) through an ion-exchange process, a responsive dye@bio-MOF-1 composite has been synthesized, serving as a dual-emitting platform for enhanced detection of different kinds of nitro-explosives, especially nitroalkanes, nitramines, and nitrate esters. The dye@bio-MOF-1 composite was constructed with free amines on their well-defined cavities, which is essential for the capture of explosives into their confined nanospace. It was observed that the encapsulation of explosives into the constructed dye@bio-MOF-1 composite could dramatically alter the luminescent properties of the dyes as well as the MOF skeletons owing to the size exclusivity and confinement-induced effect. For nitroaromatics, the dye@bio-MOF-1 composite exhibits turn-off responses via fluorescence quenching. Unexpectedly, the composite shows unique turn-on responses for aliphatic nitro-organics via confinement-induced enhancement, demonstrating enhanced ability to detecting different kinds of explosives selectively in aqueous solution. Furthermore, the dye@bio-MOF-1 film was facilely fabricated, making the chemical sensing more convenient and easier to realize the discrimination of the targeted explosives. The dual tunable responses indicate that dye@bio-MOF-1 composites are favorable materials for molecular sensing. On the basis of the host-guest properties of the constructed dye@bio-MOF-1 composite, our work can be further extended to sensing specific analytes with remarkable turn-on sensing properties, in particular those difficult to recognize with conventional methods.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20076-20085
Number of pages10
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume9
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Jun 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • confinement-induced enhancement
  • dye@bio-MOF-1 composites
  • explosive sensing
  • hostÔêguest chemistry
  • turn-on fluorescence response

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