3242 | Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017, 46, 3242--3285 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017 Cite this: Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017, 46, 3242 Metal–organic frameworks: functional luminescent and photonic materials for sensing applications William P. Lustig, † a Soumya Mukherjee, † b Nathan D. Rudd, a Aamod V. Desai, b Jing Li * a and Sujit K. Ghosh * b Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) or porous coordination polymers (PCPs) are open, crystalline supra- molecular coordination architectures with porous facets. These chemically tailorable framework materials are the subject of intense and expansive research, and are particularly relevant in the fields of sensory materials and device engineering. As the subfield of MOF-based sensing has developed, many diverse chemical functionalities have been carefully and rationally implanted into the coordination nanospace of MOF materials. MOFs with widely varied fluorometric sensing properties have been developed using the design principles of crystal engineering and structure–property correlations, resulting in a large and rapidly growing body of literature. This work has led to advancements in a number of crucial sensing domains, including biomolecules, environmental toxins, explosives, ionic species, and many others. Furthermore, new classes of MOF sensory materials utilizing advanced signal transduction by devices based on MOF photonic crystals and thin films have been developed. This comprehensive review sum- marizes the topical developments in the field of luminescent MOF and MOF-based photonic crystals/thin film sensory materials. a Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. E-mail: jingli@rutgers.edu b Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411 008, India. E-mail: sghosh@iiserpune.ac.in William P. Lustig William P. Lustig obtained his BS in chemistry from American University in 2010, joined the Jing Li Research Group in 2013, and is currently pursuing a PhD in chemistry under Professor Jing Li’s guidance. His research is centered on the synthesis and development of new organic chromophore-based luminescent metal organic frameworks with applications as sensor and phosphor materials. He is espe- cially interested in studying the luminescence mechanisms at play in these systems and using theoretical methods to aid in their rational design. Soumya Mukherjee Soumya Mukherjee received his PhD degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), under the supervision of Dr Sujit K. Ghosh. His PhD thesis work was asso- ciated with the energy economic separation-targeted exploration of diversely functionalized metal– organic materials, resulting in his dissertation ‘‘Functionalized Metal– organic Frameworks: Promising Porous Materials for Chemical Separation’’. As a Postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Professor Michael Zaworotko, his current research endeavors are principally focused into the syntheses, and gas-sorption related properties of flexible metal– organic materials, since he has recently moved to the University of Limerick, Ireland. † These authors contributed equally to this work. Received 22nd December 2016 DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00930a rsc.li/chem-soc-rev Chem Soc Rev REVIEW ARTICLE Published on 02 May 2017. Downloaded by Technical University of Munich on 9/9/2021 8:01:05 AM. View Article Online View Journal | View Issue