Recent Progress in Metal-Organic Frameworks for White-Light Emission

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a high-profile sort of multifunctional hybrid materials and display various luminescent behaviors due to the diversities of their architectures. Extraordinarily, the emergence of white-light-emitting (WLE) MOFs offers golden opportunities for designing and constructing new luminescent MOFs materials owing to their environmental friendliness, long service lives and high efficiencies. In this manuscript, we focus on recent developments of the WLE MOFs with particular emphases on their synthetic methods and properties, which mainly include co-doping of Ln(3+) in multifarious MOFs materials, lanthanide encapsulation or organic molecules capture in MOF pores to obtain tunable WLE MOFs, and several potential sensing applications including temperature, molecular and metal ions sensors. In addition, imminent challenges and :future developments of WLE MOFs materials an both proposed. This review may arouse the interest of researchers who Will design and construct new luminescent MOFs.