Flexible Metal–Organic Frameworks: Recent Advances and Potential Applications

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Flexible Metal–Organic Frameworks: Recent Advances and Potential Applications
Ze Chang, Dong-Hui Yang, Jian Xu, Tong-Liang Hu and Xian-He Bu
Adv Mater, 2015, 27: 5432-5441   [ pdf ]

Flexible metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) receive much attention owing to their attractive properties that originate from their flexibility and dynamic behavior, and show great potential applications in many fields. Here, recent progress in the discovery, understanding, and property investigations of flexible MOFs are reviewed, and the examples of their potential applications in storage and separation, sensing, and guest capture and release are presented to highlight the developing trends in flexible MOFs.