Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), rare earth MOFs, and rare earth functionalized MOF hybrid materials

In this chapter, an introduction is given to the background knowledge needed to understand the fundamental progress in fields related to metal-organic frameworks. It has three main parts: (1) an introduction to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) covering synthesis of metal-containing nodes or coordination bonds and linker design for MOFs, the postsynthetic modification (PSM) of MOFs, MOF hybrids or composites, and the potential applications of MOFs; (2) rare earth metal-organic frameworks (REMOFs); and (3) rare earth functionalized metal-organic framework hybrid materials (REFMOFHMs). The latter two parts introduce a major topic of this book, i.e., rare earth metal-organic framework hybrid materials (REMOFHMs).