A typical 2D covalent organic polymer as multifunctional sensor and assemble a WLED

Luminescent sensors have received extensive attention due to their fast-response and easy-operation and when integrating multifunctions in a sensor, the cost will be reduced substantially. Covalent organic polymers (COPs) as multifunctional luminescent sensor with outstanding performance are still underexplored. In this work, a typical COP named as COP-2 show preponderant performance in the detection of Fe3+, MnO4−, and TNP. COP-2 has the highly efficient ability to selectively detect Fe3+ among the other metal ions, and the limit of the detection (LOD) is 0.89 ​μM, which outperforms the reported covalent organic materials. Anion sensing shows the COP-2 has the highly anti-interference ability and recyclicity to detect MnO4−. Explosive analogs sensing demonstrates that COP-2 owns the superior ability in sensing TNP in the knockdown concentration with 0.0067 ​ppm LOD, which superior to the values in the reported literature. In addition to the above superb sensing performance, COP-2 can be utilized as a white light-emitting diode (WLED) when combined with the commercial blue emission LED and presents a Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) coordinate of (0.31, 0.32). These results show the COP-2 not only has an appealing performance in multifunctional luminescent sensing application, but also has a possible application in white light emitting.