Functional Coordination Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional coordination polymer; supramolecular chemistry; crystallography; chiral coordination polymer; fluorescent sensor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coordination polymers are a special kind of polymer formed using metal. Research on them requires an interdisciplinary approach and can yield significant results. The designability of coordination polymers and their unique structures, granting them multifunctional properties, make them functional materials with a wide range of potential applications. As such, coordination polymers have aroused a lot of interest in fields such as chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, energy science, biology, medicine, catalysis, environmental science, and so on.
This Special Issue focuses on the design, synthesis, structure, and properties of functional coordination polymers, including, but not limited to, their absorption; separation; sensing; chirality; catalysis; photoluminescence; nonlinear optical properties; magnetic properties; their use in hydrogen storage, energy storage, and drug delivery; their self-healing nature; their use in the formation of supramolecular polymers, hydrogen gels, water gels, and bio-mimicking materials; and computational studies on the relationship between their structure and properties.
Prof. Dr. Hui Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional coordination polymer
- metal–organic framework
- H-bonded metal–organic framework
- bionic metal–organic framework
- chiral coordination polymer
- conducting coordination polymer
- fluorescent sensor
- magnetic switch
- self-healing material
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