Chapter 4: Metal–Organic Framework/Polymer Hybrid Materials

Hybrid materials produced from MOFs and polymers can exhibit unique properties hard to realize with the individual components. The effective interactions between MOFs and polymers should be firstly considered for designing and synthesizing stable MOF/polymer hybrid materials. The common interactions between MOFs and polymers involve hydrogen bonding, π–π stacking, electrostatic interaction, coordination bonding, and covalent bonding. The resultant MOF/polymer composites can be classified into two types in terms of their structures: polymers encapsulated in MOFs and MOFs with external surfaces modified by polymers. The synthetic approaches applied for the hybridization of MOFs and polymers are introduced in this chapter based on their respective MOF/polymer interactions.