A red fluorescent turn-on chemosensor TB-COOH for Al3+was developed. The dye showed excellent AIE and biocompatibility properties, in which imaging detection and real-time monitoring of Al3+in living HeLa cells were successfully achieved.
A unique fluorescent supramolecular assembly was constructed from coumarin-modified β-cyclodextrin and an adamantane-modified cyclic arginine–glycine–aspartate peptide for high-efficiency real-time monitoring of biothiols in cancer cells.