A novel thermo-responsive supramolecular organogel based on dual acylhydrazone: fluorescent detection for Al<sup>3+</sup> ions.

Ma, Xinxian; Liu, Shiwei; Zhang, Zhifeng; Niu, Yanbing; Wu, Jincai · Soft Matter · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A new dual acylhydrazone-functionalized gelator (L) has been synthesized, which behaves as a thermal-responsive supramolecular organogel (L-gel) in DMSO. This L-gel exhibits very weak fluorescence based on the photoinduced electron transfer (PET) mechanism. The L-gel can recognize Al<sup>3+</sup> and assemble into an enhanced blue-light-emitting supramolecular metallogel (Al@gel).