Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) are attracting increasing attention in chemical sensing due to their extended π-conjugated framework, permanent microporous structure, and large specific surface area. However, the extremely poor solubility and processability of CMPs, as well as the serious fluorescence quenching caused by aggregation, restrict their practical applications. Herein, a high-luminescence CMP film is constructed based on a novel dendrimer (TPETCz) featured by its central tetraphenylethylene "core" with aggregation-induced emission effect and its highly electro-active "branches." High specific surface area CMP films for analyte diffusion are fabricated by a facile in situ electropolymerization method. These dendrimerbased CMP films exhibit superior sensitivity to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). More importantly, 18 types, the most types reported, of VOC vapors are precisely distinguished by the linear discriminant analysis by establishing a 2D fluorescence sensor array based on the CMP films and the dendrimer monomer films.

Simple and fast detection of chemical warfare agents vapor is necessary and urgent to fight against uncertain terrorist attacks and wars. In this contribution, inspired by the design of the hybrid locally excited and charge transfer (HLCT) excited state, two fast and highly sensitive visualization and fluorescence probes for DCP detection with relative small interstate coupling (J) TPA-2AC and TPA-9AC are reported. Upon exposure to saturated DCP vapor, the TPA-9AC test strips exhibited a rapid fluorescent response in no more than 1 s, accompanied by a change of the color from green to red. The detection limit of the test strips can be estimated as sensitive as 0.15 ppb, which is far superior to the "harmless" level (7 ppb) of human response to acute sarin exposure. More impressively, the fluorescent intensity of the test strips can be quickly restored when exposed to ammonia vapor for cyclic utilization, demonstrating an application prospect in the real-time detection of chemical warfare agents.

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Nerve agents, one of the most toxic chemical warfare agents, seriously threaten human life and public security. The high toxicity of nerve agents makes the development of fluorescence sensors with suitable limit of detection challenging. Here, we propose a sensor design based on a conjugated microporous polymer film for the detection of diethyl chlorophosphate, a substitute of Sarin, with low detection limit of 2.5 ppt. This is due to the synergy of the susceptible on-off effect of hybridization and de-hybridization of hybrid local and charge transfer (HLCT) materials and the microporous structure of CMP films facilitating the inward diffusion of DCP vapors, and the extended π-conjugated structure. This strategy provides a new idea for the future development of gas sensors. In addition, a portable sensor is successfully integrated based on TCzP-CMP films that enables wireless, remote, ultrasensitive, and real-time detection of DCP vapors.

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