Coordination polymers, metal-organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines

Stuart Robert Batten, Neil R Champness, Xio-Ming Chen, Javier Garcia-Martinez, Susumu Kitagawa, Lars Ohrstrom, Michael O'Keeffe, Myunghyun Paik Suh, J Reedijk

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Abstract

Coordination polymers (CPs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are among the most prolific research areas of inorganic chemistry and crystal engineering in the last 15 years, and yet it still seems that consensus is lacking about what they really are, or are not.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3001 - 3004
Number of pages4
JournalCrystEngComm
Volume14
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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