Multifunctional lanthanide coordination polymers

Lanthanide coordination polymers (Ln-CPs) have attracted explosive attention as an emerging type of multifunctional materials in the last decades. The establishment of the permanent porosity within Ln-CPs has enabled them to be a new class of materials for gas adsorption and separation. The unique luminescent properties, tunable emission colors, and various NIR emitting of luminescent Ln-CPs feature them as promising materials for solid-state light (SSL) applications in display devices, sensing and white-light emitting. Taking advantages of collaborative permanent porosities and unique luminescent properties, Ln-CPs are superior to other types of materials for their applications in luminescent chemical sensing, biomedical imaging as well as drug delivery monitoring and treatment. In this review, we focus on recent significant advances on this active research field and provide a comprehensive review on multifunctional Ln-CPs materials for gas adsorption and separation, tunable luminescence, chemical sensing, catalysis, and biomedical applications.