Water‐Triggered Structural Transformation in a Silver Chalcogenolate Cluster‐Based MOF (SCC‐MOF) Enables Visually Readable Trace Water Sensing
Abstract
ABSTRACT Monitoring trace water is vital for chemical processes and moisture‐sensitive materials, but conventional electrical humidity sensors require complex instrumentation and lack intuitive visual readout. Luminescent metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) offer optically driven water sensing; however, most existing systems still rely on traditional node‐linker structures, whereas cluster‐assembled frameworks may have potential due to their multisite existence and remain largely unexplored. Here, we introduce a silver chalcogenolate cluster‐based framework (SCC‐MOF), Ag 12 ‐TCNB 3D‐3D ( TCNB, 1,2,4,5‐tetracyanobenzene ) that exhibits a striking orange‐to‐yellow luminescence transition upon water exposure, enabling rapid, naked‐eye detection within relative humidity (RH)
Fields of Study & Subjects
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
Magnetism in coordination complexes
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Advanced Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 36
- Pages
- e73504–e73504
- Publication date
- 28 May 2026
- Language
- EN