Chemical sensing using indicators, or chemosensor, has rapidly developed over the past decades. Its chemistry covers a wide range of scientific fields, in which analytical and supramolecular chemistry are key ideas to create functional and smart chemosensors. The principle of such a chemosensor design consists of three major processes: (1) to separate analytes, (2) to capture a specific analyte from a complex mixture, and (3) to output a signal from a [chemosensor•analyte] complex. In this review, "Analytical Supramolecular Chemistry" as a new scientific area was proposed, enabling us to promote deep insights into the mechanistic understanding of chemosensors. This review describes the interesting and representative chemosensors involving significant photochemical and photophysical processes and recent our advances in analytical supramolecular chemistry.

在过去的几十年中，使用指示剂或化学传感器的化学传感已迅速发展。它的化学涵盖了广泛的科学领域，其中分析和超分子化学是创建功能性和智能化化学传感器的关键思想。这种化学传感器设计的原理包括三个主要过程：（1）分离分析物；（2）从复杂的混合物中捕获特定的分析物；（3）从[化学传感器·分析物]复杂物输出信号。在这篇评论中，“分析超分子化学“提出了一个新的科学领域，使我们能够促进对化学传感器的机械理解的深入了解。这篇综述描述了有趣且具有代表性的化学传感器，涉及重要的光化学和光物理过程，以及我们最近在分析超分子化学方面的进展。