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ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 533-543Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00127
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- United States Army Research Office for a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) [W911NF-15-1-0447]
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation through a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
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The simultaneous polymerization and crystallization of monomers featuring directional bonding designs provides covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are periodic polymer networks with robust covalent bonds arranged in two or three-dimensional topologies. The range of properties characterized in COFs has rapidly expanded to include those of interest for heterogeneous catalysis, energy storage and photovoltaic devices, and proton-conducting membranes. Yet many of these applications will require materials quality, morphological control, and synthetic efficiency exceeding the capabilities of contemporary synthetic methods. This level of control will emerge from an improved fundamental understanding of COF nucleation and growth processes. More powerful characterization of structure and defects, improved syntheses guided by mechanistic understanding, and accessing diverse isolated forms, ranging from single crystals to thin films to colloidal suspensions, remain important frontier problems.
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