Sensitive and selective detection of chemical and biological analytes is critical in various
scientific and technological fields. As an emerging class of multifunctional materials …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) promise to advance a number of real-world technologies. Of
these applications, they are particularly attractive for uses in chemical sensors for …

There is great need for stand-alone luminescence-based chemosensors that exemplify
selectivity, sensitivity, and applicability and that overcome the challenges that arise from …

Among the large family of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), Zr-based MOFs, which exhibit
rich structure types, outstanding stability, intriguing properties and functions, are foreseen as …

A rare combination of dual static and dynamic fluorescence quenching mechanisms is
reported, while sensing the nitroexplosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) in water by a cationic …

The detection of explosives is one of the current pressing concerns in global security. In the
past few decades, a large number of emissive sensing materials have been developed for …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a unique class of crystalline solids comprised of
metal cations (or metal clusters) and organic ligands that have shown promise for a wide …

The field of supramolecular chemistry has been flourishing since J.-M. Lehn, DJ Cram, and
CJ Pedersen were awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. By Prof. Lehn's definition, 1 …

Highly efficient luminescent materials in solid states are promising candidates for the
development of organic optoelectrical materials and devices and chemical and biological …

We demonstrate that rigidifying the structure of fluorescent linkers by structurally
constraining them in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to control their conformation …