Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Ultrafast water sensing and thermal imaging by a metal-organic framework with switchable luminescence

  • Ling Chen,
  • Jia-Wen Ye,
  • Hai-Ping Wang,
  • Mei Pan,
  • Shao-Yun Yin,
  • Zhang-Wen Wei,
  • Lu-Yin Zhang,
  • Kai Wu,
  • Ya-Nan Fan,
  • Cheng-Yong Su

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15985
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Fast and sensitive detection of water molecules in organic solvents and gases remains an important challenge. Here, Pan and co-workers design a metal-organic framework capable of ultrafast and reversible water sensing by photoluminescence switching via an excited state intramolecular proton transfer mechanism.