Covalent Organic Frameworks Based Smart Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 303
Special Issue Editor
Interests: covalent organic frameworks; fluorescence sensing; photocatalysis; environmental catalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent years have witnessed fascinating developments in the field of crystalline covalent organic frameworks (COFs) materials. Because of their excellent porosity, crystallinity, stability and structural tunability, COFs materials are widely applied for multiple aims, such as adsorption, separation, catalysis, energy storage, optoelectronics and sensors. Being highly designable and tunable, COFs act as functional smart materials that can respond to multiple external stimuli, such as irradiation, pH, humidity, metal cations, anions, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and toxic pollutants (NH3, drugs, antibiotics and pesticides). Despite the insights into COFs-based smart materials being in the formative stages, this field is burgeoning with rapid development from multidisciplinary efforts, combining ever-increasing advances in materials science, synthetic chemistry, chemical physics and characterization techniques. However, there remain several obstacles limiting the practical applications of COFs-based smart materials, such as unclear structure–function relationship, difficult monomer synthesis, non-trivial screening of appropriate conditions for crystallization, low yields for the preparation of COFs materials, unsatisfactory processability and performance such as poor photoluminescence quantum yield and rare “turn-on” type response examples.
This Special Issue should concentrate on these challenges. It provides an opportunity to focus on the novel design, synthesis and application of COFs-based smart materials for responding to different types of external signals, which will not only boost further scientific progress in this field, but also provide mechanistic insights and viewpoints. This will cover advanced solutions to fundamental problems associated with COFs with stimuli-responding functions, the perceptions of which are being discovered before these solutions.
I cordially invite you to submit your contributions to this issue, whose topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fluorescent COFs responding to metal cations and anions;
- Humidity-sensing COFs;
- COFs capable of sensing changes in pH;
- COFs materials for responding to other types of external stimuli;
- Structure–function relationship demonstration of COFs-based stimuli-responding materials.
Prof. Dr. Dongge Ma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- covalent organic frameworks (COFs)
- stimuli-responding materials
- fluorescent COFs sensors
- COFs materials responding to humidity and pH
- structure–function relationship
- mechanisms of COFs-sensing applications
- design and synthesis of novel COFs-based smart materials
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