CuX-Based MOFs as functional materials for adsorption, catalytic, and sensing applications

Abstract

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) built with nodes of copper(I) halides as metallic nodes have experienced a recent increase in interest as these porous materials exhibit rich physical, photophysical, and chemical properties and applications. In this comprehensive review, these properties and applications are surveyed and described, and include highly luminescent materials exhibiting long-lived excited state lifetimes, high triplet populations, large Stokes shift, etc., which are also of high porosity and rigidity. The auspicious combination of these properties lends them interesting applications such as selective gas adsorption and separation, capture of pollutants, catalysis, and sensing, among others.