Construction of binary metal‒organic cage‒based materials via a “covalently linked plus cage encapsulated” strategy

A strategy for constructing binary metal-organic cage (MOC)-based materials was developed. The cationic MOCs were covalently linked by organic linkers to a cationic extended network, whereas the anionic MOCs acted as counterions and were encapsulated in the network. Compared with the corresponding unary materials, the binary MOC-based materials exhibited improved porosity and adsorption performance.