A succinct enhanced luminescence strategy for fluorescent ionic liquids and the application for detecting CO2

An interesting phenomenon was found that fluorophore was introduced into ionic liquid (IL) to magnify fluorescence signal via the thermally activated delayed fluorescence process; thus up to 15 fold enhancements were achieved. Hence, we reported a succinct enhanced luminescence strategy to reduce single-triplet energy split by the tunability of ILs. This strategy could be extended to more kinds of ILs by the virtue of a preliminary DFT calculation screening. Moreover, the optical feature of IL sensor made it a promising candidate as a gas fluorescence sensor.