Ekaterina A. Dolgopolova

TL;DR: The focus of this review is shifted towards a "beyond the pores" approach, which could foreshadow new guidelines for sensor engineering.

TL;DR: These studies unveil the possible pathways for transforming the electronic properties of MOFs from insulating to semiconducting, as well as provide a blueprint for the development of hybrid porous materials with desirable electronic structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis, characterization, and modeling of three classes of hierarchical materials with potential for sequestering radionuclides: nanoparticles, porous frameworks, and crystalline salt inclusion phases are discussed as laying the groundwork for the design, local structure control and synthesis of new forms of matter with tailored properties.

TL;DR: It is reported for the first time that coordinative integration of photoresponsive building blocks possessing photochromic spiropyran and diarylethene moieties within a rigid scaffold of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could control photophysics, in particular, cycloreversion kinetics, with a level of control that is not accessible in the solid state or solution.

TL;DR: The combination of a multistep synthetic approach with homogeneous actinide distribution and moderate solvothermal conditions could make MOFs an exceptionally powerful tool to address fundamental questions responsible for chemical behavior of An-based extended structures and, therefore, shed light on possible optimization of nuclear waste administration.