AIE-active metal–organic frameworks: facile preparation, tunable light emission, ultrasensitive sensing of copper(ii) and visual fluorescence detection of glucose

A series of LMOFs with AIE and ESIPT properties, tunable emissions and large Stokes shifts has been facilely synthesized by binding AIEgens with nanoscale ZIF-8 to realize sensitive sensing of copper(ii) and visual fluorescence detection of glucose.