AUTHOR=Addicoat Matthew A. , Tsotsalas Manuel 

TITLE=Covalently Linked Organic Networks

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=2

YEAR=2015

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2015.00007

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2015.00007

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=<p>In this review, we intend to give an overview of the synthesis of well-defined covalently bound organic network materials such as covalent organic frameworks, conjugated microporous frameworks, and other “ideal polymer networks” and discuss the different approaches in their synthesis and their potential applications. In addition we will describe the common computational approaches and highlight recent achievements in the computational study of their structure and properties. For further information, the interested reader is referred to several excellent and more detailed reviews dealing with the synthesis (Dawson et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2012</xref>; Ding and Wang, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">2013</xref>; Feng et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">2012</xref>) and computational aspects (Han et al., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">2009</xref>; Colón and Snurr, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">2014</xref>) of the materials presented here.</p>