Porous Organic Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Porous organic materials have recently emerged as smart materials for carbon capture, storage, separation, catalysis, dye adsorption and degradation, luminescence and electrochemical and photochemical reactions. This set of materials includes porous organic polymers (POPs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs), covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs) and porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs). In addition, the properties of these materials are comparable with those of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in most cases. These materials have gained significant interest in the scientific communities due to their low density, high stability and large surface area, along with the possibility to customize their pore volume, size and modifications. Using such materials, several parameters can be tuned towards achieving enhanced properties. They have also gained significant attention in catalysis, as this sort of catalyst bridges the gap between homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis. Due to pore confinements and high surface area, these materials have shown interesting and selective dye adsorption and even degradation. Lanthanide-functionalized materials have shown outstanding luminescence properties as white-light-emitting materials. Noble and transition metal nanoparticle loaded porous organic materials have shown potential in electrochemical and photochemical reactions, including organic transformation, CO₂ reduction, hydrogen evolution, oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions.

Within this context, the aim of this Special Issue is to collect articles describing porous organic materials for different potential applications. From the perspective of materials, amorphous as well as crystalline porous materials will be considered. Regarding applications, the scope of the Special Issue will be extended to all sorts of potential applications reported using POPs, COFs, PAFs and MOFs.

Dr. Himanshu Sekhar Jena
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Molecules is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.