Luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks as multifunctional materials for applications in solid-state lighting and sensing

GOMEZ, GERMAN E.

Journal of the Argentine Chemical Society

ASOCIACIÓN QUÍMICA ARGENTINA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2019 vol. 106 p. 97 - 114

0365-0375

The intense study of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) along the last years, is a clear example of the interest of these type of compounds as a new generation of multifunctional materials for a variety of emerging applications. Inspired by the first works of worldwide known specialists such us O. Yaghi and G. Férey, the international scientific community has been exploring a variety of metal centers and organic ligands under different synthetic conditions and methodologies in order to obtain MOFs with pore architectures, functionalities, texture and unique properties.In this context, the choice of lanthanides ions as building blocks offers huge possibilities for the construction of luminescent MOFs (LMOFs) for potential technological applications. With this motivation, a revision on this line of research and perspectives will be presented and discussed. Thus, an analysis concerning to the rational design of LMOFs, considering the nature of the linker, the lanthanide, the net dimensionality and the possible energy transfer process, will be carried out. Besides, the different type of luminescent performance based on emission, color, lifetimes and quantum yields as parameters of interest will be analyzed. Finally the most relevant results towards the development of solid-state lighting and sensors devises based on LMOFs will be presented.