Covalent Organic Framework-based Hybrid Materials and Their Applications

Abstract

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as the next-generation porous polymers for functional applications ranging from materials to medicine. In the last two decades, significant progress has been made in the design and synthesis of crystalline, porous, and stable COFs, and various properties have been explored. In comparison to other porous polymers, COFs exhibit superior properties, which can be enhanced and tuned further through the integration of other functional materials with COFs at bulk, meso- or nanoscale. The incorporation of functional materials in the COF matrix results in achieving desired properties in comparison to the individual components. In this chapter, the chemistry of COF-based hybrid materials is introduced, and their preparation, multifunctional properties, and applications in various fields are summarized.