Abstract
Two fluorescent chemosensors based on MOF-5 and curcumin (A-curcumin@MOF-5 and B-curcumin@MOF-5) were designed and synthesized. The two curcumin@MOF-5 materials retained the framework structure of MOF-5 and the fluorescence properties of curcumin. Importantly, both curcumin@MOF-5 materials in ethanol displayed highly selective fluorescence enhancement responses toward Al3+ with the special pore structure of MOF-5 as the main reason for the high selectivity. The fluorescence intensities of the two curcumin@MOF-5 materials showed a good linear relationship with Al3+ concentration with low detection limits of 3.10 μM for A-curcumin@MOF-5 and 2.84 μM for B-curcumin@MOF-5, respectively. The complexation of curcumin with Al3+ inhibited the photoinduced electron-transfer (PET) process and further enhanced the fluorescence of the curcumin molecules. Both the curcumin@MOF-5 materials can be used as fluorescent sensors to identify and detect Al3+ in water samples.
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