Photochromic materials have broad application prospects in the fields of molecular
switching, detection, biological, and molecular machines. Crystalline hybrid photochromic …

Owing to their three dimensionality and high porosity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
have attracted the attention of scientists especially chemists and material engineers. The …

Over the past three decades, the field of coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) has developed rapidly due to the potential applications of these …

Polyoxometalate–viologen hybrids are a class of photochromic materials with variable
structures and interesting application performance. In recent years, some progress has been …

The past decade has witnessed the rapid development of functional coordination polymers
(CPs) for various potential applications. Generally speaking, functionalization of …

The sensitive and selective detection of ethylenediamine (EDA) has great significance due
to its threat to environment and human health. Herein, a rationally designed …

As discrete anionic metal–oxygen clusters, polyoxometalates (POMs) demonstrate immense
advantages as photochromic materials owing to their good redox properties and photo …

While viologen derivatives have long been known for electrochromism and photochromism,
here we demonstrated that a viologen-carboxylate zwitterionic molecule in the crystalline …

A viologen‐based Borromean entangled porous framework was found to be sensitive to
both CuKα and MoKα X‐ray sources, showing rapid photochromic response and recovery …

The anion-π interaction, a non-covalent attractive force between hosts (electron-deficient
arenes) and guests (anions) besides having many turns and surprises has recently turned …