Advances in Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) Based Functional Polymeric Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of porous materials constructed from organic building blocks connected through covalent bonds. These materials have attracted substantial research attention in recent years, primarily due to their inherent advantages, including high porosity, excellent stability, and low density, which make them highly suitable for broad applications in gas storage and separation, optoelectronic devices, heterogeneous catalysis, and energy storage systems. Specifically, the well-defined ordered pore structures of COFs play a key role in enhancing the exposure of active sites, thereby promoting efficient interaction between active sites and substrate molecules. This unique structural feature endows COFs with great application potential as advanced photo/electrocatalysts for various electrochemical reactions, such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR). Therefore, investigating the potential applications of COF-based functional polymeric materials through various targeted modification techniques has become an increasingly significant research area in materials chemistry.

Relevant application fields for submission include, but are not limited to, energy storage, gas adsorption and separation, photodynamic therapy, and photo/electrocatalysis.

Dr. Qianjun Zhi
Guest Editor

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