Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs, also known as porous coordination polymers or PCPs) are an emerging class of porous materials constructed from metalcontaining nodes (also known as secondary building units, or SBUs) and organic linkers. Due to their structural and functional tunability, the area of MOFs has become one of the fastest growing fields in chemistry. This is demonstrated through the ever-escalating number of structures, publications, and citations emerging, as well as by the constant expansion of research scope and researcher engagements. This almost unprecedented surge in MOF research can be ascribed to the following five developments: (1) advances in cluster chemistry, (2) maturation of organic synthesis pertinent to ligand preparation and post-synthetic modification, (3) improvement in structure determination, particularly through X-ray crystallography, and development of hardand software for evaluation of sorption properties, (4) interdisciplinary growth of MOF research with its neighboring fields, and (5) the ever-expanding potential in applications. The MOF field has recently been reviewed extensively. In 2009, the first themed issue of Chemical Society Reviews dedicated to MOFs was published and it has been a tremendous success, as evidenced by the record number of citations it has received. Additional themed issues and monographs focusing on this research area have also been published elsewhere. Following on from these a Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77842-3012, USA. E-mail: zhou@chem.tamu.edu; Fax: +1 979 845 1595; Tel: +1 979 845 4034 b Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. E-mail: kitagawa@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Hong-Cai “Joe” Zhou

Susumu Kitagawa

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Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

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