Issue 34, 2015

Strong blue emissive nanofibers constructed from benzothizole modified tert-butyl carbazole derivative for the detection of volatile acid vapors

Abstract

Two new benzothizole modified carbazole derivatives (CBT and TCBT) were synthesized. It was found that TCBT with a tert-butyl moiety could gel cyclohexane, cyclopentanol and octane/cyclohexane (v/v = 2/1) under ultrasound stimulus, but CBT without a tert-butyl group failed to form an organogel in the selected solvents, revealing that tert-butyl played an important role in gel formation. X-ray diffraction patterns of xerogels indicated that TCBT molecules self-assembled into a lamellar structure in the gel state. In particular, xerogel-based films of TCBT emitted strong blue light and could be used as fluorescent sensory materials to detect acid vapors of TFA, HCl, HNO3, formic acid and acetic acid with high performance on account of the good adsorption and diffusion of analytes in 3D networks consisting lots of nanofibers as well as the efficient exciton migration in nanofibers. It suggested that the organogelation of π-gelators was a facile way to generate efficient chemosensors.

Graphical abstract: Strong blue emissive nanofibers constructed from benzothizole modified tert-butyl carbazole derivative for the detection of volatile acid vapors

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Jul 2015
Accepted
31 Jul 2015
First published
03 Aug 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 8888-8894

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Strong blue emissive nanofibers constructed from benzothizole modified tert-butyl carbazole derivative for the detection of volatile acid vapors

J. Sun, P. Xue, J. Sun, P. Gong, P. Wang and R. Lu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 8888 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC02012C

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