Themed collection New frontiers in covalent organic frameworks: design and applications

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Open Access Review Article

Covalent organic frameworks as multifunctional materials for chemical detection

This review highlights how the unique properties of COFs are harnessed to develop different types of chemical detection systems based on the principles of chromism, luminescence, electrical transduction, chromatography, spectrometry, and others.

Graphical abstract: Covalent organic frameworks as multifunctional materials for chemical detection
Open Access Review Article

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical applications

This review article summarizes the design principles and strategies for the synthesis of functional COFs, with a special focus on their potential for electrochemical applications.

Graphical abstract: Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for electrochemical applications
Review Article

Optoelectronic processes in covalent organic frameworks

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are crystalline porous materials constructed from molecular building blocks using diverse linkage chemistries. The image illustrates electron transfer in a COF-based donor–acceptor system. Image by Nanosystems Initiative Munich.

Graphical abstract: Optoelectronic processes in covalent organic frameworks
Review Article

Covalent organic frameworks: an ideal platform for designing ordered materials and advanced applications

Covalent organic frameworks offer a molecular platform for integrating organic units into periodically ordered yet extended 2D and 3D polymers to create topologically well-defined polygonal lattices and built-in discrete micropores and/or mesopores.

Graphical abstract: Covalent organic frameworks: an ideal platform for designing ordered materials and advanced applications
Open Access Review Article

Solving the COF trilemma: towards crystalline, stable and functional covalent organic frameworks

Strategies in covalent organic frameworks and adjacent fields are highlighted for designing stable, ordered and functional materials.

Graphical abstract: Solving the COF trilemma: towards crystalline, stable and functional covalent organic frameworks
Review Article

Chiral covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis and property

Owing to the unique structural features and facile tunability of the subcomponents and channels, chiral COFs show great potential in heterogeneous catalysis, enantioselective separation, and recognition.

Graphical abstract: Chiral covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis and property
Review Article

Function-oriented synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic frameworks – from 3D solids to 2D sheets

This review provides guidelines for the function-oriented synthesis of 2D COFs from 3D solids to 2D sheets.

Graphical abstract: Function-oriented synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic frameworks – from 3D solids to 2D sheets
Review Article

Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with hierarchical porosity

This review highlights the state-of-the-art progress achieved in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with hierarchical porosity, an emerging class of COFs constructed by integrating different types of pores into one framework.

Graphical abstract: Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with hierarchical porosity
Review Article

Bulk COFs and COF nanosheets for electrochemical energy storage and conversion

The current advances, structure-property relationship and future perspectives in covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and their nanosheets for electrochemical energy storage (EES) and conversion (EEC) are summarized.

Graphical abstract: Bulk COFs and COF nanosheets for electrochemical energy storage and conversion
Review Article

Design and applications of three dimensional covalent organic frameworks

We summarize in this review the current state-of-the-art development of three dimensional covalent organic frameworks.

Graphical abstract: Design and applications of three dimensional covalent organic frameworks
Review Article

Covalent organic frameworks for separation applications

This review article comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the development of covalent organic framework materials for separation applications.

Graphical abstract: Covalent organic frameworks for separation applications
Review Article

The luminescent and photophysical properties of covalent organic frameworks

This review highlights the luminescent and unique photophysical properties of covalent organic frameworks. Their potential use in applications related to chemical sensing, photocatalysis, and optoelectronics are discussed.

Graphical abstract: The luminescent and photophysical properties of covalent organic frameworks
Tutorial Review

Confined growth of ordered organic frameworks at an interface

This tutorial review covers the recent design, synthesis, characterization, and property study of COF thin films and covalent monolayers through interfacial polymerization.

Graphical abstract: Confined growth of ordered organic frameworks at an interface
Tutorial Review

New synthetic strategies toward covalent organic frameworks

This tutorial review highlights the representative advances in the new synthetic strategies toward covalent organic frameworks.

Graphical abstract: New synthetic strategies toward covalent organic frameworks
Tutorial Review

Covalent organic framework nanosheets: preparation, properties and applications

Covalent organic frameworks are crystalline porous materials with 2- or 3-dimensional structures designed modularly from their molecular precursors. Using bottom-up or top-down strategies, single- or few-layer materials can be obtained from them.

Graphical abstract: Covalent organic framework nanosheets: preparation, properties and applications
Open Access Tutorial Review

Topological two-dimensional polymers

The structural topology of a 2D network defines its electronic structure.

Graphical abstract: Topological two-dimensional polymers
Tutorial Review

Supramolecular design in 2D covalent organic frameworks

2D covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of porous polymers with crystalline structures. This tutorial review discusses how the concepts of supramolecular chemistry are used to add form and function to COFs through their non-covalent bonds.

Graphical abstract: Supramolecular design in 2D covalent organic frameworks
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About this collection

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent a new field of rapidly expanding chemical research that takes direct inspiration from covalent dynamic chemistry, translated to the supramolecular level. The success of linking molecules in two and three dimensions to construct extended and highly ordered framework structures moved the chemistry of COFs beyond mere structures to new concepts and methodologies, highlighting the feasibility of prospective applications.

In this themed issue, Guest Edited by Rahul Banerjee (IISER, Kolkata), Bettina Lotsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and William Dichtel (Northwestern University), we would like to spotlight the structure -- property relationships in COFs giving rise to fascinating properties, like separation, ionic and electronic transport, catalytic activity, processability and scalability. These attributes are key to adapting COFs to next-generation applications in energy conversion and storage, catalysis, optoelectronics, biomedicine, and beyond. On a more fundamental level, we would like to revisit the growth of COFs, highlight novel design concepts and identify new development areas for COFs which have the potential to ultimately take COFs from mere lab curiosities to technologically relevant materials.

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