A novel fluorophore with multichromic effect and its application in LED light for the volatile vapor detection.

Successfully designed and synthesized diaryl maleimide DAM, and their structure was confirmed by mass spectroscopy and NMR techniques. They investigated their photophysical properties, such as solvatochromic and the aggregation effect of AIE/ACQ on the water/DMF ratio, and other studies of solid-state mechanofluorochromic, such as grinding, exposure to solvent fumes, hydrostatic pressures, and vapochromic. Interestingly, the solvent methods gave very similar results in both the dissolving phase and the vapor phase. For the solution state from hexane to CHCl a greenish-yellow to orange emission was observed. From hexane to dichloromethane, naked-eye colorimetric changes (from yellow to orange in a solid state) were observed. Very interesting results were obtained, the yellow solid was ground for 1 min, it turned into an orange color, and its wavelengths were red-shifted in both absorption and emission. Subsequently, the ground sample was exposed to diethyl ether vapors, which returned to the original green-yellow emission and absorption. The applied hydrostatic pressures (0-4Mpa) in DAM gave excellent red-shifted emission, and then their hydrostatic pressures were increased to 4-16 Mpa, and the red-shifted emission gradually decreased.