Properties and applications of porphyrin-based coordination polymers and networks

Coordination polymers (CPs) and networks represent a special class of materials exhibiting a wealth of quasi-custom-made properties opening the door to tailored applications. Using chromophore, emissive and electro-active ligands, the resulting coordination materials, either used as in its pristine form or as a composite possesses rich photophysical and redox properties, thus these features can be exploited advantageously. This is indeed the case for porphyrin-containing ligands, which are known to be both electro- and photochemically active. This article explores the structural traits of porphyrin-based-1D, 2D and 3D-CPs and networks, as well as their properties and applications, but excludes 3D-porous porphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks, PMOFs, which have been thoroughly reviewed in the past and nowadays. The covered properties are photophysics (including nonlinear optics and photosensitization), proton transport, magnetics, ferroelectric, and electric conductivity, and the applications includes electrochemical water splitting (including H 2 - and O 2 -evolution), CO 2 reduction, gas and molecule adsorption/trapping, antimicrobial, photodynamic therapy (PDT) and antimicrobial PDT (aPDT), catalysis, photocatalysis, sensors and solar cells.