Emerging new-generation hybrids based on covalent organic frameworks for industrial applications

Abstract

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are innovative and remarkable crystalline/porous macrocyclic materials that are composed of purely organic building blocks with strong covalent linkages between light atoms. These newly developed crystals with tailor-made constructions have attracted widespread attention due to low density, promising stabilities, great surface area, ordered and regular porous networks, unique functionalities, as well as proper crystallinity. Impressively, in comparison with other giant molecules, these materials are synthetically manageable and fully organizationally pre-designable. The unique features have permitted COFs to be advanced in combination with other materials such as polymeric, metallic, and carbonaceous materials for designing and discovering novel promising systems in numerous utilizations. Herein, this review highlights the advancement of COF hybrid-based materials for diverse industrial applications. First, a summary of the latest achievements of COFs in various fields is presented, and then hybrids of these materials and their unique applications are considered.