Coordination Polymers Based on Macrocyclic Ligands

Dear Colleagues,

Coordination polymers (CPs) are fascinating materials constructed from metal ions and organic ligands relying on coordination bonds, and the properties and application of these materials have been found to be dependent not only on their chemical composition (metal ions, ligands, and anions) but also on their dimensionality and motifs, which can, to some extent, be rationally designed. Due to their cyclic nature, it is possible to design macrocyclic ligands to bind specific metal cations, anions, or neutral species. If rationally designed, macrocycles can also act as attractive supramolecular scaffolds that favor the formation of 1D, 2D, and 3D polymeric species. These materials are characterized by exquisite physiochemical properties, high thermal stability, porosity, mechanical flexibility, and, most importantly, a tunable structure–property relationship. Such remarkable attributes have attracted substantial interest from the scientific community and have highlighted these materials for potential application in catalysis, sensing and detection, gas storage and separation, and magnetic and optical materials.

Within this Special Issue of Polymers we aim to collect novel results in this specific field of CPs. We invite you to report the latest advances in the form of full papers, communications, and review articles. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the synthesis, design, and functionalization of 1D, 2D, and 3D CPs containing macrocyclic ligands (CPs with calixarenes, imines, porphyrins, MOFs, porous CPs, etc.), characterization (X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, thermal analysis, electrochemical analysis, and adsorption analysis), and application (catalysis, sensing and detection, gas storage and separation, magnetic and optical materials, and others).

Prof. Dr. Tomislav Balić
Prof. Dr. Ivica Đilović
Prof. Dr. Martina Medvidović-Kosanović
Guest Editors

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• macrocycles
• coordination polymers
• rational design and functionalization
• porosity
• catalysis
• sensing and detection
• gas storage and separation