Arginine-responsive terbium luminescent hybrid sensors triggered by two crown ether carboxylic acids

作者:Jiang, Lasheng; Tang, Ke; Ding, Xiaoping; Wang, Qianming*; Zhou, Zhan; Xiao, Rui
来源:Materials Science and Engineering: C , 2013, 33(8): 5090-5094.
DOI:10.1016/j.msec.2013.09.007

摘要

Crown ether carboxylic acids constitute main building blocks for the synthesis of terbium containing covalent cross-linked luminescent materials. Both the complexes and the hybrid nanomaterials could exhibit remarkable green emissions in pure water. More importantly, they were found to have a profound effect on the luminescence responses to arginine compared with glutamic acid, histidine, tryptophan, threonine, tyrosine and phenylalanine in aqueous environment. The present study provided the possibility of using a host-guest mechanism as a way of signal transduction based on lanthanide supramolecular hybrid materials.