Abstract
A novel gelator PNDS contains pyridine and naphthalimide groups is designed and characterized. PNDS forms green emissive, self-healing and transparent super gel (0.1 wt%) in isopropanol with monomolecular aggregations. While, it forms yellow emissive and opaque gels in other short alcohols with bimolecular aggregations. The gelation arrays endow selective discrimination of isopropanol with n-propanol and other short alcohols. It is presented that PNDS adopts different assembly modes in these alcohols, leading to different optical, chiral, morphological and rheological properties. Also, we also demonstrate that the gels could selectively respond to HSO4− among test anions in proton solvents.
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