One pressing concern today is to construct sensors that can withstand various disturbances for highly selective and sensitive detecting trace analytes in complicated samples. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) with tailor-made binding sites are preferred to be recognition elements in sensors for effective targets detection, and fluorescence measurement assists in highly sensitive detection and user-friendly control. Accordingly, molecular imprinting-based fluorescence sensors (MI-FL sensors) have attracted great research interest in many fields such as chemical and biological analysis. Herein, we comprehensively review the recent advances in MI-FL sensors construction and applications, giving insights on sensing principles and signal transduction mechanisms, focusing on general construction strategies for intrinsically fluorescent or nonfluorescent analytes and improvement strategies in sensing performance, particularly in sensitivity. Construction strategies are well overviewed, mainly including the traditional indirect methods of competitive binding against pre-bound fluorescent indicators, employment of fluorescent functional monomers and embedding of fluorescence substances, and novel rational designs of hierarchical architecture (core-shell/hollow and mesoporous structures), post-imprinting modification, and ratiometric fluorescence detection. Furthermore, MI-FL sensor based microdevices are discussed, involving micromotors, test strips and microfluidics, which are more portable for rapid point-of-care detection and in-field diagnosing. Finally, the current challenges and future perspectives of MI-FL sensors are proposed.

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In this work, a class of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) formulated by choline chloride (ChCl), phenol (PhOH), and ethylene glycol (EG) were designed and synthesized for NH 3 capture. The effects of temperature, pressure, and DES composition on NH 3 capacities were investigated systematically. By utilizing the weak acidity of PhOH, highly efficient and reversible absorption of NH 3 was realized in PhOH-based ternary DESs. The absorption capacities of NH 3 in prepared DESs can reach as high as 9.619 mol/kg (0.162 g/g) at 298.2 K and 101.3 kPa, ranking one of the best reported to date. The captured NH 3 could be easily stripped out at elevated temperature and reduced pressure, with negligible loss in NH 3 capacities after 10 adsorption−desorption cycles. The thermodynamic properties of the NH 3 absorption process, such as reaction equilibrium constants, Henry's constants, and absorption enthalpies, were also calculated with the assistance of thermodynamic modeling. It is found that the NH 3 absorption process exhibits a moderate enthalpy change of −36.91 kJ/mol, indicating the potentially energy-efficient feature of a subsequent desorption process. The results obtained herein suggest that PhOH-based ternary DESs are promising media for the capture of NH 3 from industrial gases.

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