Porous Organic Molecular Materials (POMMs) are an emerging class known for their extensive porous structures, which primarily result from non-covalent interactions like hydrogen bonds, ionic interactions, and π–π stacking. This class encompasses a diverse array of chemical families, such as Hydrogen-Bonded ...
Porous Organic Molecular Materials (POMMs) are an emerging class known for their extensive porous structures, which primarily result from non-covalent interactions like hydrogen bonds, ionic interactions, and π–π stacking. This class encompasses a diverse array of chemical families, such as Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks (HOFs), Porous Organic Salts, Porous Organic Cages, C−H⋅⋅⋅π Microporous Crystals, Supramolecular Organic Frameworks (SOFs), π-Organic Frameworks, Halogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks (XOF), and Intrinsically Porous Molecular Materials (IPMs). A notable benefit of POMMs is their remarkable tunability and diversity. This chemical flexibility allows for the creation of materials with customized properties, resulting in enhanced performance and efficiency for specific uses. Realizing their full potential necessitates a wide range of synthetic strategies and building blocks. Although a relatively young field, POMMs have attracted considerable interest in recent times and have already achieved promising results in diverse areas, including gas separation, catalysis, sensing, drug delivery, and environmental remediation.
Despite of its potential, the field of POMMs is clearly behind other synthetic porous materials such as MOFs and COFs. This is mainly due to being a relatively new and unexplored field. Although some families of POMMs are attracting interest nowadays and a lot of work is currently done, yet, more work needs to be done to fully exploit the inherent properties of these materials. The main goal is to encourage researchers within the field to submit communications, articles and reviews about the synthesis and applications of POMMs.
We welcome Original Research, Review, Mini Review and Perspective articles on themes including, but not limited to:
• Synthesis and applications of the diverse families of porous organic molecular materials
• Hydrogen bonded organic frameworks
• Porous organic cages
• Halogen bonded organic frameworks
• Supramolecular organic frameworks
• Porous organic salts
Keywords:
Materials, hydrogen bonded organic frameworks, porous organic cages, porous organic macrocycles, halogen bonded organic frameworks.
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