Multifunctional Materials Based on Coordination Polymers

Dear Colleagues,

Our society requires new advanced materials to face various challenges, such as climate change, environmental pollution and the generation or storage of energy. This, however, entails a high cost for the environment due to the large consumption of raw materials and energy. It is in this way that multifunctional materials can help conserve environmental and economic resources, space and energy. Multifunctional materials represent an example of an interdisciplinary field, including the usage of computational engineering for the design of materials. In this sense, coordination polymers have been the focus of attention of scientists for many years due to the wide variety of physical and/or chemical properties that they can present and that can be tuned by the proper selection of the metal ion and the organic ligand, such as luminescent, magnetic, catalytic properties, porosity, adsorption and separation of gases, chirality, etc. They can show two or more of these properties at the same time becoming multifunctional materials. This Special Issue will aim to publish high-quality research articles by scientists working on different aspects of multifunctional materials based on coordination polymers. This includes, but is not limited to, synthesis, processing, characterization and practical applications.

Dr. Beatriz Gil-Hernández
Guest Editor

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