Which is a better fluorescent sensor: aggregation-induced emission-based nanofibers or thin-coating films?

Yexin Ding; Weili Li; Fangming Wang; Hongkun Li; Shengyuan Yang; Lijun Wang; Zhiming Wang; Mike Tebyetekerwa; Ben Zhong Tang

doi:10.1039/D0MA00409J

Which is a better fluorescent sensor: aggregation-induced emission-based nanofibers or thin-coating films?†

Yexin Ding,^a Weili Li,

*^a Fangming Wang,^a Hongkun Li,

^b Shengyuan Yang,

^c Lijun Wang,^a Zhiming Wang,

^d Mike Tebyetekerwa

*^e and Ben Zhong Tang

*^df

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^a School of Material Science and Engineering & National Demonstration Center for Experimental Materials Science and Engineering Education, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, China
E-mail: liweili@just.edu.cn

^b State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

^c State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Shanghai “Belt & Road” International Joint Laboratory for Advanced Fiber and Low-dimension Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China

^d Guangdong Innovative Research Team, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China

^e Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
E-mail: mike.tebyetekerwa@anu.edu.au

^f Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China
E-mail: tangbenz@ust.hk

Abstract

In this work, aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-based fluorescent nanofibers and thin-film coatings are fabricated using electrospinning and spin coating techniques, respectively. The two material domains are utilized as visual fluorescent sensors whose mechanism of performance is governed by the intramolecular rotation phenomenon of the AIE molecular rotors. The samples’ response to humidity, temperature and organics is compared. Final results revealed that there is no all-ideal morphology. Each material works best as a visual fluorescent sensor in specific environments.

This article is part of the themed collections: Fluorescent and Luminescent Materials and Materials Advances HOT Article Collection

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0MA00409J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 11 iyn 2020
Accepted: 03 iyl 2020
First published: 06 iyl 2020
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Mater. Adv., 2020,1, 574-578

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Which is a better fluorescent sensor: aggregation-induced emission-based nanofibers or thin-coating films?

Y. Ding, W. Li, F. Wang, H. Li, S. Yang, L. Wang, Z. Wang, M. Tebyetekerwa and B. Z. Tang, Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 574 DOI: 10.1039/D0MA00409J

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