Modular Synthesis of Functional Nanoscale Coordination Polymers
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- 5 January 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
- Vol. 48 (4), 650-658
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200803387
Abstract
The coordination‐directed assembly of metal ions and organic bridging ligands has afforded a variety of bulk‐scale hybrid materials with promising characteristics for a number of practical applications, such as gas storage and heterogeneous catalysis. Recently, so‐called coordination polymers have emerged as a new class of hybrid nanomaterials. Herein, we highlight advances in the syntheses of both amorphous and crystalline nanoscale coordination polymers. We also illustrate how scaling down these materials to the nano‐regime has enabled their use in a broad range of applications including catalysis, spin‐crossover, templating, biosensing, biomedical imaging, and anticancer drug delivery. These results underscore the exciting opportunities of developing next‐generation functional nanomaterials based on molecular components.Keywords
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