Themed collection Emerging Trends in Advanced Functional Porous Materials

Recent progress in ferroptosis based on metal–organic frameworks is highlighted to achieve simultaneous delivery of iron sources, ferroptosis inducers, and therapeutic drugs for tumor combination therapy, as well as active targeting.

This review offers a comprehensive analysis of MIL-160, a versatile aluminum-furandicarboxylate metal–organic framework (MOF) with significant applications across environmental, industrial, and biomedical fields.

SALI enables incorporation of functional ligands to MOF nodes, unlocking new features in rational design of new materials. This review highlights nearly 100 SALI examples showcasing their impact across catalysis and other applications.

This review highlights recent advances in synthesis strategies and diverse emerging applications of single-crystal covalent organic frameworks.

This review outlines the synthesis strategies and functional applications of MOF-based anticorrosion materials, and the roles of MOFs in enhancing coating performance through nanofilling, inhibition, and self-healing functionalities are highlighted.

This review highlights recent progress in metal hydroxide–organic frameworks (MHOFs), focusing on their synthesis, mechanisms, and applications in sustainable energy and environmental remediation.

An illustrative summary of the synthesis, antibacterial properties and applications of metal porous materials.

Supramolecular chemistry has made substantial inroads through the development of innovative porous materials formed by the self-assembly of molecular building blocks, driven by diverse interactions, for the capture and detection of SO₂.

This review highlights recent advances in solar-enhanced lithium extraction (SEIE) systems enabled by photothermal materials (PMs), offering insights into the development of efficient PMs for sustainable lithium recovery from low-grade brines.

This review provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the application of COF-based porous organic materials in the mercury removal from aqueous solutions.

This paper reviews the latest research progress of MXene-based materials in aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Additionally, the modification strategies, performance optimization mechanisms, challenges faced, and future development directions are analyzed.

MOF-composites are porous materials with a large surface area and functionalized with other types of materials (metallic nanoparticles, oxides, zeolites, etc.), affording optimal and chemically stable structures for wastewater remediation.

This review highlights recent advances in porous material-based electrocatalysts (MOFs, COFs, porous carbons) for CO₂ reduction, focusing on structure–activity relationships, product selectivity, and future industrial prospects.

This review describes the recent research on recent advances in non-stoichiometric multicomponent hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks, and their applications are introduced too.

High-efficiency thermal management systems are crucial for maintaining the performance, safety and durability of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), particularly under challenging operating conditions.

Different dimensional Co-based MOFs and their derivative materials for electrocatalytic decomposition of water oxygen evolution reaction (OER).

The capture and storage of bromine by advanced functional porous materials have garnered significant attention in recent years due to its widespread industrial applications as well as its environmental impact as a pollutant.

This review summarizes advances in mechanisms of porous osteoinductive calcium phosphate ceramics, emphasizing material properties and cellular events for material optimization.

This work highlights the aerosol-assisted strategies to engineer advanced nanostructured catalysts, unlocking new opportunities for thermocatalytic CO₂ utilization toward sustainable energy and chemical production.

In this review, we present AI-driven advances in MOF research, highlighting the integration of databases, algorithms, design strategies, synthesis prediction, and smart applications across diverse functional domains.

COF-based electrocatalysts enable efficient, selective, and sustainable electrosynthesis of H₂O₂ through rational design, mechanism insight, and structure–performance optimization.

This review explores porous architecture engineering in SIBs, analyzing performance enhancement through structural design, synthesis, and porosity optimization.

New porous Fe-squarate MOF (IEF-40) with open Fe(III) sites and microwave-induced mesoporosity shows record CO₂ conversion for Fe-MOFs, excellent stability and recyclability, offering a low-cost, earth-abundant alternative to Co and toxic catalysts.

A robust ultramicroporous pillar-layered metal–organic framework with precisely tailored narrow apertures enables highly selective separation of propylene from propane.

Two triphenylamine-based organic cathodes were synthesized via Suzuki–Miyaura coupling and evaluated in high-voltage rechargeable lithium–organic batteries.

The incorporation of the auxiliary ligand, 4,4′-bipyridine, into Ni-BTC MOF has been proposed in this work, which induces electronic structure redistribution, enhancing electronic conductivity, and facilitating improved OER catalysis.

Solvent-induced conformational changes in organic building blocks enable effective regulation of the emission wavelength of a pair of hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks.

Adaptive molecular crystals of homothiacalix[4]arene can selectively adsorb benzene over cyclohexane and undergo a considerable conformational change in the single-crystal.

We report the discovery of four new metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) constructed from identical constituents—Zn²⁺ ions, Pd(II) meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin, and adenine—but displaying distinct structural motifs, polymorphism, and properties.

The cyano-functionalized D–A and A1–D–A2 polymers were constructed, successfully achieving hole localization to enhance the water oxidation reaction, thereby promoting H₂O₂ photosynthesis.

Synthesis procedure of tcpt catalysed by MAF-5.

Polycondensation of various aromatic amides in P₄O₁₀ at 400 °C yields covalent triazine frameworks intergrown with a polyphosphoric acid framework (POF-CTFs).

A crystalline, imine-linked, cobalt(II)-anchored ionic covalent organic framework (Co-Py-COF) was constructed to enable the synergistic catalytic cycloaddition of CO₂ under mild conditions.

The magnetic modulation and magnetocaloric effect of porous organic frameworks constructed using lanthanide and croconic acid.

An unexpected reversible xenon-induced structural transition is found in ZIF-4 by in situ¹²⁹Xe NMR spectroscopy.

An efficient NU-66/ZnO heterojunction was fabricated by decorating ZnO nanofibers with NU-66 octahedrons for solar-driven H₂O₂ production in pure water.

A stable quinoline-linked phenothiazine-based covalent organic framework (QCOF) was first constructed, followed by the fabrication of a flexible self-supporting MXene/QCOF@CNT electrode, which exhibited excellent cycling stability.

Defect-rich CeO₂ photocatalysts derived from supramolecular metal–organic gels (CeO₂-MOG) enable efficient hydrogen production from glucose under visible light, offering a sustainable route to solar-driven biomass conversion.

A porous zirconium UiO-MOF confined mononuclear iron(III) dihydride catalyst enabling efficient monoborylation of CH₄ using HBpin at 185 °C to afford methyl boronic acid pinacol ester in 85% yield with a cumulative TON of up to 921.

A robust polyamide/cellulose acetate/UiO-66 hybrid membrane was developed using combined non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS) and coaxial electrospray-interfacial polymerization (IP).

Mechanochemistry enables rapid, efficient dye-MOF conjugation for visible-light-driven hydrogen production, offering a sustainable route for MOF functionalization.

A stable pillared metal triazolate framework with sulfate as the gate for highly efficient dehydration of bioethanol.

We have demonstrated that the presence of methoxy groups in the COF backbone significantly improves hydrogen peroxide generation performance compared to hydroxy-functionalised counterparts.

Orientational framework isomers are rare, and can be distinguished by their network topologies, as in CTH-41 and 437-MOF with In³⁺ and the flexible benzene-1,3,5-triyl-tris(oxy)tribenzoate, bttb linker while Zr-MOF CTH-42 forms the unusual llj-net.

A fluorine-doped hard carbon efficiently enhanced sodium-ion storage kinetics, offering a promising pathway for the development of high-performance anodes in sodium-ion batteries.

A composite lithium-metal anode (LMA) (CC@Fe₂O₃/CoFe₂O₄@Li) based on derivatives of bimetallic FeCo-MOFs has been prepared. It took only 2 seconds for molten lithium to be fully injected into the modified 3D skeletons, acting as a lithium sponge.

Co₂(OH)(5-cnapp)(H₂O) (1) and [Co₈(OH)(4-cnapp)₅(H₂O)₁₀]·12H₂O (2) were obtained using positionally isomeric phosphonic acids. Compound 1 contains distorted Co₃(μ₃-OH) kagomé layers and shows long-range weak ferromagnetic ordering below 30 K.

Three chiral MOFs with BINOL-derived tetrabenzoate ligands were developed for luminescence sensing of 1-phenyl-1,2-ethandiol (PE) enantiomers, with hydroxy groups significantly enhancing luminescence quenching by S-PE.

In this work we expand the family of ZIFs capable of being melt-quenched into a vitreous phase with the first Mn-based glass.

A series of rare-earth metal–organic frameworks were synthesized based on a pentiptycene-octacarboxylic ligand.

Multitopic phosphine ligands combined with Rh(I) or Ir(I) nodes assemble into low-valent metal–organic frameworks (LVMOFs) with a two-dimensional (2D) topology and catalytic activity.

The methyl-functionalized MOF ZJU-64-Me achieved better adsorption performances than ZJU-64 via dual selectivity mechanism (electrostatic attraction and steric discrimination). A ZJU-64-Me@SA membrane was then fabricated for practical applications.

By decorating nonpolar ferrocene (Fc) units in a robust metal–organic framework through a postsynthetic modification approach, MOF-808-6Fc is obtained, which exhibit more suitable pore volume and stronger affinity toward C₂H₂ and C₂H₆ over C₂H₄.

Photocatalytic C-3 thiocyanation of indoles over tetraphenylsilane-based porous aromatic frameworks shows outstanding performance in terms of catalytic activity (up to 99% yield), substrate scope (15 examples), and recyclability (5 times).

This work presents a sustainable PVDF/CCNF/MIL-125(Ti) membrane with ultrafiltration, self-cleaning, and photocatalytic functions, offering high flux, antifouling, and pollutant removal for scalable water purification.

An ionic porous organic cage (OFT-RCC3⁶⁺6Br⁻) served as a metal-free catalyst for the solvent-free conversion of CO₂ into cyclic carbonates, achieving high catalytic turnover.

Synthesis of hierarchical porous Zn/Co bimetallic ZIF and controlling Zn/Co ratio in the ZIF.

A copper (Cu) foam supported Cu₂O@NiMn₂O₃ heterostructure with a porous texture was designed to serve as a bifunctional electrode for photo-supercapacitors with high energy efficiencies.

A flower-like chiral MOF membrane was constructed via Cu²⁺ coordination with R/S-tryptophan, enabling enantioselective amino acid separation (ee up to 99.38%) through synergistic hydrogen bonding, π–π interactions, and steric hindrance.

This study presents a novel multi-stage membrane column separation system that synergistically integrates membrane and column separation technologies, resulting in enhanced separation efficiency for Yb³⁺/Lu³⁺.

Rich edge-type Fe single-atom sites were fabricated by a Bi-assisted pyrolysis method, exhibiting high performance in electrochemical CO₂ reduction reaction.

For the first time, we reported a single-atom palladium photocatalyst, Pd-Ace-COF, for continuous C–C coupling reaction.

We developed a robust double-network cross-linked polymer foam (DN-CPF) integrating rigid sp²C-CPPs and flexible chains, achieving 1.53 kg m⁻² h⁻¹ evaporation rate with excellent stability in high-salinity and harsh chemical environments.

Ionic ultramicroporous polymers are compositionally fine-tuned. Extending the cationic arm in a new variant is found to double the acetylene over CO₂ adsorption selectivity, underpinned by detailed computational studies on the binding sites.

A rare in situ crystal structure transformation by solvent etching occurred in hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks.

A solvent-mediated subcomponent self-assembly strategy was developed for synthesizing covalent metallacycles with different shapes.

The high reactivity of indole and formaldehyde has been successfully controlled through the confinement effect of MOF, enabling the highly selective synthesis of novel oxazole compounds via a specific reaction pathway.