Recent Advances in Lanthanide-based MOFs for Luminescence Detection

Abstract

Lanthanide-based metal-organic frameworks (Ln-MOFs) have been well developed in recent years because of their unique optical properties including long luminescence lifetimes, sharp emission peaks, large Stokes shifts, and tunable luminescence colors, which endow Ln-MOFs high-performance luminescence detection. In order to give a comprehensive understanding of luminescence sensing, this paper reviews how Ln-MOFs offer highly sensitive and selective detection in environmental monitoring, biomedicine, food safety, and public security. In addition, the luminescence sensing processes, recent advances, had been addressed, and design strategy, as well as a forward-looking view on potential prospects and problems had also been provided.