Chemical Society Reviews

This review summarizes recent advances and highlights the structure–property relationship on metal–organic framework-based materials for carbon dioxide capture and conversion.

Self-assembled gels have nanoscale ‘solid-like’ networks spanning across a liquid-like phase and are ideally suited for bringing these into intimate contact with polluted solution-phase media in an environmental setting, with the ultimate goal of environmental remediation.

Advances in metal–organic frameworks are highlighted with an emphasis on tuning the structure and function via linker design.

We review recent advances in the design and application of excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer (ESIPT) based fluorescent probes. These sensors and imaging agents (probes) are important in biology, physiology, pharmacology, and environmental science.

The state-of-the-art of fluorescent materials and their sensing mechanism/properties for the detection of explosives in the recent 5 years were systematically reviewed.