1 CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, PR China. [email protected].
A novel cuprous complex bearing two functional parts, i.e. a luminophoric part and a structural part, exhibits distinct luminescence responses to a variety of volatile organic compounds of different polarities in the solid state.