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We are delighted to share with you our Spotlight Collection on MOF Sensors.

This Spotlight Collection is guest edited by Dalton Transactions Associate Editor Takashi Uemura (University of Tokyo).

Does your research fit into this subject area? If so, we would welcome your contribution.

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About the Spotlight Collection

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), comprised of metal ions and bridging organic ligands, have emerged as an important family of porous materials. Owing to their highly porous structures with functional properties, MOFs are considered as one of the most ideal materials for chemical sensors as the sensing properties are strongly influenced by surface interaction between analyte molecules and pore walls of MOFs. The application of MOFs covers the fields of sensing toward a variety of target compounds, including gases, solvents, explosives, ions, pollutions, and biological molecules. This spotlight collection focuses on the latest studies on MOF-based sensors published in Dalton Transactions, showing highly sensitive detections and the future research directions using MOFs with respect to general sensing principles and analytical performance.

Articles will be added to this open and on-going spotlight collection as soon as possible after they are published. You can find a selection of the articles below and check out the growing collection online here:

First Ln-MOF as a trifunctional luminescent probe for the efficient sensing of aspartic acid, Fe³⁺ and DMSO
Dongdong Yang, Liping Lu,* Sisi Feng and Miaoli Zhu*
Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 7514-7524

Engineering design toward exploring the functional group substitution in 1D channels of Zn–organic frameworks upon nitro explosives and antibiotics detection
Zhan Zhou, Min-Le Han, Hong-Ru Fu, Lu-Fang Ma,* Feng Luo and Dong-Sheng Li*
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 5359-5365

The effect of functional groups in the aqueous-phase selective sensing of Fe(III) ions by thienothiophene-based zirconium metal–organic frameworks and the design of molecular logic gates
Rana Dalapati, Ülkü Kökçam-Demir, Christoph Janiak and Shyam Biswas*
Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 1159-1170

How to submit:

All types of manuscript – communications, full papers, perspective, frontiers and comments – will be considered for publication. The manuscript should be prepared according to our article guidelines and submitted via our online system.

All manuscripts will be subject to the usual initial assessment and peer review processes as necessary, and inclusion in the Spotlight Collection will be at the discretion of the Guest Editors. Please indicate in your submission that you are submitting to the Spotlight Collection.

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