Tetrathiafulvalene-capped hybrid materials for the optical detection of explosives.

Yolanda Salinas, Ramón Martínez-Máñez, Jan O Jeppesen, Lars H Petersen, Félix Sancenón, María Dolores Marcos, Juan Soto, Carmen Guillem, Pedro Amorós

Index: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 5(5) , 1538-43, (2013)

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Abstract

Mesoporous silica microparticles capped with TTF moieties and containing a ruthenium dye in the pores were used for the turn-on optical detection of the nitroaromatic explosives Tetryl and TNT via a selective pore uncapping and release of the entrapped dye.