Metal ions exist globally. Therefore, the study of the design strategies, mechanistic insights,
and applications of fluorescent Schiff base sensors for metal ion detection constitutes an …

“Unity is force”–Aesop. It is a common phenomenon that traditional chromophores exhibit
high fluorescence in dilute solutions, yet luminescence is quenched at high concentrations …

The discovery of the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) phenomenon about two decades
ago has ever since changed our mutual understanding of the aggregation of organic …

Metal cations have a significant impact on the metabolism and normal physiological
activities of organisms. Therefore, it is necessary to develop excellent sensors with high …

Highly sensitive and selective detection of nitro containing high energy organic compounds
such as picric acid (PA), 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2, 4-dinitrotoluene (DNT) has …

Picric acid, due to its low pKa value, possesses distinct physicochemical features from all
other nitroaromatic derivatives, enabling the design of fluorescent probes for its sensitive …

The emergent arena of bio-nanotechnology aims at modernizing the detection and
bioimaging discipline via the introduction of aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-based …

Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have attracted great attention in multidisciplinary fields due to
their distinctive advantages of tunable emission, low toxicity and abundant raw materials …

Schiff bases are an important class of compounds that are highly instrumental in complex
formation as well as act as sensors for various metal ions. Herein, 1-aminopyrene was …

In this article, we tried to redefine the unexplored potential of a benzothiazole type of Schiff-
base (OM), which was identified as an AIE-active molecule that exhibits excited-state …