We are delighted to share with you a selection of the papers which will be presented at our Faraday Discussion on New directions in porous crystalline materials taking place in Edinburgh, UK in June 2017. More information about the event may be found here: http://rsc.li/porous-fd2017. Additional articles will be added to the collection as they are published. The final versions of all the articles presented and a record of the live discussions will be published after the event.

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), and related molecular porous materials have entered a stage where not just the porosity, but other physical attributes are now playing a major role in their properties. Catalytic properties rivalling those of classic heterogeneous catalysts are being unearthed by carefully engineering isolated active sites in the pores. Photophysical properties enabled by both the rigidity and the controlled dynamics of the porous environment are making strides from both fundamental and applied perspectives. Applications in energy storage are emerging as well, enabled by important advances in increasing the electrical and ionic conductivity in these materials to values that rival and even surpass those of organic semiconductors. Exciting magnetic properties are being reported in such materials with increasing frequency as well, suggesting that perhaps porous magnets and possibly superconductors are also within reach. This Discussion thus focuses on several important new directions in the chemistry of porous crystalline materials and will attempt to distil converging themes.

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Themed collection New directions in porous crystalline materials

Spiers Memorial Lecture:

Porous crystalline materials: closing remarks

Functionalized metal organic frameworks for effective capture of radioactive organic iodides

Efficiently mapping structure–property relationships of gas adsorption in porous materials: application to Xe adsorption

Phenanthroline-based metal–organic frameworks for Fe-catalyzed C_sp³–H amination

Designing porous electronic thin-film devices: band offsets and heteroepitaxy

Study of the scale-up, formulation, ageing and ammonia adsorption capacity of MIL-100(Fe), Cu-BTC and CPO-27(Ni) for use in respiratory protection filters

UiO-66-(SH)₂ as stable, selective and regenerable adsorbent for the removal of mercury from water under environmentally-relevant conditions

Minimal edge-transitive nets for the design and construction of metal–organic frameworks

Addressing the characterisation challenge to understand catalysis in MOFs: the case of nanoscale Cu supported in NU-1000

In-MOFs based on amide functionalised flexible linkers

Assembly of dicobalt and cobalt–aluminum oxide clusters on metal–organic framework and nanocast silica supports

Harvesting the photoexcited holes on a photocatalytic proton reduction metal–organic framework

Structure–property–activity relationships in a pyridine containing azine-linked covalent organic framework for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Ethylene oligomerization in metal–organic frameworks bearing nickel(II) 2,2′-bipyridine complexes

Tuning the properties of metal–organic framework nodes as supports of single-site iridium catalysts: node modification by atomic layer deposition of aluminium

Ternary gradient metal–organic frameworks

Facile synthesis of an ultra-stable metal–organic framework with excellent acid and base resistance

Cyclic gas-phase heterogeneous process in a metal–organic framework involving a nickel nitrosyl complex

Tuning Pt and Cu sites population inside functionalized UiO-67 MOF by controlling activation conditions

Enhancing the biofuel upgrade performance for Pd nanoparticles via increasing the support hydrophilicity of metal–organic frameworks

MOFs modeling and theory: general discussion

New directions in gas sorption and separation with MOFs: general discussion

Catalysis in MOFs: general discussion

Electronic, magnetic and photophysical properties of MOFs and COFs: general discussion

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