A light-driven ultrafast sensor based on biocompatible solvatochromic metal–organic frameworks
The design of fast, endurant, and biocompatible porous frameworks with solvatochromism, aimed to addressing the multiple visual sensing of chemicals, still remains a challenge. Here, we report on a solvatochromic metal-organic framework (MOF) based on cobalt and trimesic acid. We examined its solvatochromism through the solvent exchange and revealed high selectivity to water/dimethylformamide combination. The color change over 50 cycles during the solvent exchange occurs for 0.1 s, being 2 orders of magnitude faster than for existing MOFs. Despite the cobalt content, toxicity assays <i>in vivo</i> and <i>in vitro</i> revealed high biocompatibility of the MOF. The latter allowed implementing the fastest, highly-endurant and biocompatible MOF-based visual sensor of humidity in a desiccator for storage of water-sensitive goods and chemicals. Finally, for such a sensor, we demonstrated its multiple uses through remote light-driven recovery that contributes to the sustainability of this functional MOF.
Authors
- Maria Timofeeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8156-5411)
- Agniia Bazhenova
- Valentin A. Milichko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8461-0804)
- Sergei Alexandrovich Shipilovskikh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8917-2583)
- А. Б. Бондаренко (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8437-1313)
- Yuliya Kenzhebayeva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8525-5437)
- Alexander S. Novikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9913-5324)
- Nikita Burzak
- Vyacheslav Dyachuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-7367)
- Artem Lunev
Institutions
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RU)
- St Petersburg University (RU)
- ITMO University (RU)
- Saint Petersburg Mining University (RU)
- Federal Almazov North-West Medical Research Centre (RU)
- A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
- Institut Jean Lamour (FR)
- Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University (RU)
- Université de Lorraine (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Materials Horizons
- Published
- 2024-11-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d4mh01264j
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.92
Funders
- Russian Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
- RUDN University
- Russian Academy of Sciences