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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017 Oct 18;9(41):36320-36326. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b12063. Epub 2017 Oct 04.

Supramolecular Host-Guest System as Ratiometric Fe.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Qianfang Yao, Baozhong Lü, Chendong Ji, Yang Cai, Meizhen Yin

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology , 100029 Beijing, China.

PMID: 28891642 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b12063

Abstract

Developing a specific, ratiometric, and reversible detection method for metal ions is significant to guard against the threat of metal-caused environmental pollution and organisms poisoning. Here a supramolecular host-guest system (WP5⊃G) based on water-soluble pillar[5]arene (WP5) and water-soluble quaternized perylene diimide derivative (G) was constructed. Morphological transformation was achieved during the process of adding WP5 into G aqueous solution, and a fluorescence "turn-off" phenomenon was observed which was caused by supramolecular photoinduced electron transfer (PET). Meanwhile, hydrophobic effect and electrostatic interaction played important roles in this supramolecular process, which was confirmed by isothermal titration calorimeter (ITC) and ζ potential experiments. Furthermore, the supramolecular host-guest system could be a "turn-on" fluorescent probe for Fe

Keywords: metal detection; morphological transformation; photoinduced electron transfer; supramolecular host−guest

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