Supercoiled fibres of self-sorted donor-acceptor stacks: a turn-off/turn-on platform for sensing volatile aromatic compounds.

ABSTRACT: To ensure the comfortable survival of living organisms, detection of different life threatening volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as biological metabolites and carcinogenic molecules is of prime importance. Herein, we report the use of supercoiled supramolecular polymeric fibres of self-sorted donor-acceptor molecules as "turn-off/turn-on" fluorescent sensors for the detection of carcinogenic VOCs. For this purpose, a C₃-symmetrical donor molecule based on oligo(p-phenylenevinylene), C₃OPV, and a perylene bisimide based acceptor molecule, C₃PBI, have been synthesized. When these two molecules were mixed together in toluene, in contrast to the usual charge transfer (CT) stacking, supramolecular fibres of self-so

SUBMITTER: Sandeep A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6014296 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature