Preparation and applications of water-based coordination pillared-layer

Abstract

Coordination pillared layers (CPLs) are solely crystalline porous polymers (PCPs) with certain distinctive characteristics and promising uses. These distinct features open the path for more complex and long-term uses. Due to the recent developments made in their historical construction over the past few decades, they have gained wide attention from the scientific community due to their innate potential. Moreover, their preparation by the principles of green synthesis and sustainability has revolutionized the same field and broadened the domain of research by providing more inclusiveness to the scientific community. In the last few decades, research on CPLs, including the range of their structural features, synthesis, and uses, has grown significantly. These structures' unique features are enticingly opening up new avenues for prospective uses in areas including the adsorption process, catalysis, sensing, drug delivery, etc. These emerging applications drastically increase its utility and a need for more bulk manufacturing to satisfy the needs of the growing global market towards a sustainable and greener scale. Apart from the vast number of these structures being reported, their industrial application is still limited which can be seen due to some factors like stability as compared to non-pillared structures. Consequently, the need for designing new structures with special linkers and coordination atoms to improve their utility for various applications is the need of the hour. This will not only allow us to explore their structures but will comply with the new emerging potential applications.