low background interference, and easy operation. [4][5][6][7] Nowadays, ECL with these favorable benefits has become one powerful analytical technique applied in biomarkers, food safety, and environmental pollutants analyses. [8][9][10][11] As it is well known, the high sensitivity for the ECLbased immunoassays was mainly attributable to the excellent luminophores. [12] At present, most of the reported methods used nanomaterials like multi-porous nanoparticles (NPs) [13,14] or metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) [15][16][17] as carriers to immobilize the typical ECL emitters, including luminol, tris-bipyridyl ruthenium (Ru(bpy) 3
2+), and their derivatives. [1] In particular, MOFs have received intense attention in ECL analysis because of their high poriness, easy functionalization, and ultrahigh surface area. [18][19][20] Nonetheless, these nanomaterials based strategies for luminophores immobilization by postmodification or encapsulation, still exist some shortcomings when used in aqueous phase. For instance, the poor stability of MOFs in water would result in leakage of ECL chromophores, and the large steric hindrance of organic luminophores limited the loading capacity to some extent, which both abridged their in-depth application in ECL bioassays. Thus, without the trivial post-synthetic steps, it seems an ideal way to design innovative ECL luminophores based MOFs that emitted light by themselves.Currently, some groups have reported that the Ru(bpy) 3 2+ derivatives, could be employed as organic ligands to fabricate MOFs with self-luminescent properties. [21,22] To some extent, the aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effect [23,24] was unavoidable due to the π-π stacking of the aggregated luminescent centrosome. Fortunately, aggregation-induced emission (AIE), which was proposed by Tang and co-workers in 2001, [25] paved a new avenue to resolve this problem. So far, a variety of AIE luminogens (AIEgens)-based nanomaterials have been widely applied in the fields of solid-state optoelectronic devices, [26,27] fluorescence imaging, [28] and biosensors, [29][30][31] because the AIEgens displayed strong emission in aggregated state but almost nonemissive in diluted solution with molecule-free state. [32] Inis widely known that high-performance electrochemiluminescence (ECL) emitters play a crucial part in improving the detection sensitivity of the ECL strategy. Through the combination of aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens), 1,1,2,2-tetra(4-carboxylbiphenyl)ethylene (H 4 TCBPE) with Zr(IV) cations, a dumbbell plate-shaped metal−organic framework (MOF) with high luminous efficiency is synthesized as ECL tags. The resultant MOF exhibits stronger ECL activity than those of H 4 TCBPE monomers and aggregates. Herein, this phenomenon is defined as the coordination-triggered electrochemiluminescence (CT-ECL) enhancement effect. Furthermore, the nearly matched ECL and photoluminescence (PL) spectra imply the bandgap emission mechanism. Remarkably, polyethyleneimine (PEI) as the coreactant is covalently connected ...