Issue 88, 2016

Supramolecular aggregates as sensory ensembles

Abstract

As a new emerging area in chemical sensing, sensing using supramolecular aggregates exhibits unique advantages over that using conventional small-molecule chemical sensors, in terms of high sensitivity and selectivity, and the simplicity of the sensory building blocks. This Feature Article outlines the recent research progress made in sensing based on induced supramolecular aggregation–disaggregation. The reviewed sensory building blocks, in general, in the form of a small molecular sensor, yet with a much simpler structure, which form aggregates, are those of perylene derivatives, pyrene derivatives, tetraphenylethylene derivatives, metallophilic species and metal–organic frameworks.

Graphical abstract: Supramolecular aggregates as sensory ensembles

Article information

Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
22 7 2016
Accepted
31 8 2016
First published
31 8 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 12929-12939

Supramolecular aggregates as sensory ensembles

Q. Wang, Z. Li, D. Tao, Q. Zhang, P. Zhang, D. Guo and Y. Jiang, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 12929 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06075G

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