The overuse of surfactants has made them well-known environmental pollutants.So far,it is still a challenge to simultaneously distinguish cationic,anionic,zwitterionic,nonionic surfactants and surfactants with similar...The overuse of surfactants has made them well-known environmental pollutants.So far,it is still a challenge to simultaneously distinguish cationic,anionic,zwitterionic,nonionic surfactants and surfactants with similar structures based on traditional analytical techniques.We developed a high-throughput method for distinguishing various surfactants based on the adaptive emission profile as fingerprints(AEPF).The fluorescence response of the sensor was based on the interaction between surfactants and 1,3-diacetylpyrene(o-DAP)probe.The interaction affected the reversible conversion of free molecules and two aggregates in the solution,thereby changing the relative abundance and the fluorescence intensity ratio of two aggregates emitting different fluorescence.The o-DAP sensor can distinguish four types of surfactants(16 surfactants),especially surfactants of the same type with similar structures.The o-DAP sensor sensitively determined the critical micelle concentration(CMC)of 16 surfactants based on the interaction between o-DAP and surfactants.Additionally,the o-DAP sensor can detect and distinguish artificial vesicles made from different surfactants.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22225806,22078314,22278394,22378385)Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(Nos.DICPI202142,DICPI202436).
文摘The overuse of surfactants has made them well-known environmental pollutants.So far,it is still a challenge to simultaneously distinguish cationic,anionic,zwitterionic,nonionic surfactants and surfactants with similar structures based on traditional analytical techniques.We developed a high-throughput method for distinguishing various surfactants based on the adaptive emission profile as fingerprints(AEPF).The fluorescence response of the sensor was based on the interaction between surfactants and 1,3-diacetylpyrene(o-DAP)probe.The interaction affected the reversible conversion of free molecules and two aggregates in the solution,thereby changing the relative abundance and the fluorescence intensity ratio of two aggregates emitting different fluorescence.The o-DAP sensor can distinguish four types of surfactants(16 surfactants),especially surfactants of the same type with similar structures.The o-DAP sensor sensitively determined the critical micelle concentration(CMC)of 16 surfactants based on the interaction between o-DAP and surfactants.Additionally,the o-DAP sensor can detect and distinguish artificial vesicles made from different surfactants.
