AUTHOR=Lv Hongying , Wei Lingzhong , Guo Song , Zhang Xiaofeng , Chen Feixia , Qin Xiaojin , Wei Chun , Jiang Bingli , Gong Yongyang TITLE=Ionic Rigid Organic Dual-State Emission Compound With Rod-Shaped and Conjugated Structure for Sensitive Al3+ Detection JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2022.807088 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2022.807088 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=Dual state emission (DSE) luminogens, a type of luminescent materials which can effectively emit light in both dilute solution state and solid state, have attracted tremendous attentions, due to the widespread applications in chemical sensing, biological imaging, organic electronic devices, and so on. They overcome the shortcomings of aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-type compounds that do not emit light in dilute solutions and aggregation-induced quenching (ACQ)-type compounds that do not emit light in concentrated or aggregated state. This work reports a novel ionic DSE material based on rigid rod-shaped organic conjugated structure using 4,4'-bis(2-sulfonatostyryl) biphenyl disodium salt (BSBDS), the ion repulsion effect can reduce the strong - interaction in aggregation and achieve high-efficiency luminescence in solution and solid states. In addition to the excellent DSE characteristics, BSBDS also exhibits mechanochromic nature and sensitive detection performance for aluminum ion (Al3+).