title: Emerging Multifunctional Metal-Organic Framework Materials.
abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as coordination polymers, represent an interesting type of solid crystalline materials that can be straightforwardly self-assembled through the coordination of metal ions/clusters with organic linkers. Owing to the modular nature and mild conditions of MOF synthesis, the porosities of MOF materials can be systematically tuned by judicious selection of molecular building blocks, and a variety of functional sites/groups can be introduced into metal ions/clusters, organic linkers, or pore spaces through pre-designing or post-synthetic approaches. These unique advantages enable MOFs to be used as a highly versatile and tunable platform for exploring multifunctional MOF materials. Here, the bright potential of MOF materials as emerging multifunctional materials is highlighted in some of the most important applications for gas storage and separation, optical, electric and magnetic materials, chemical sensing, catalysis, and biomedicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 78249, United States.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 78249, United States.
authors.forename: Hui-Min
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Yuanjing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899-6102, United States.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China. gdqian@zju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Guodong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 78249, United States. banglin.chen@utsa.edu.
authors.forename: Banglin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: metal-organic frameworks; multifunctional materials; optical materials; porous materials; sensing materials