Introduction Almost two decades after their popularization and uninterrupted exploration, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are still fascinating the research community. Christian has received the CNRS bronze medal, a ERC starting grant, the Solid State Chemistry award of the French chemical society and recently the Fondé de l’Etat award from the French academy of sciences. His research topics deal with the synthesis, structure and applications of porous solids. He moved recently to the Ecole Normale Supérieure and ESPCI (Paris). After a post-doctoral fellowship in the USA, he became a CNRS researcher in the ‘Porous Solids’ group at Institut Lavoisier (Versailles), taking its lead in 2009 as research director. His research mainly deals with the synthesis, structural characterization and study of the properties of new hybrid solids, with a special emphasis on the use of non-conventional ligands, in situ studies and structure–property relationships, and more recently their applications in the field of electrochemical energy storage.Ĭhristian Serre obtained his PhD in 1999 from the University of Versailles St Quentin. In 2016, he moved to the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes, France. Stephen Lee (2003–2004), he was appointed as a CNRS researcher in the research group “Porous Solids” headed by Gérard Férey at the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, France. After a postdoctoral stay at the Cornell University, USA, in the group of Prof. Thomas Devic studied Chemistry at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Angers, France, in the field of conducting molecular materials. Her current research interests focus on the synthesis of nanomaterials and composites based on metal–organic frameworks for different applications (energy, biosensing, etc.). In 2010, she moved to ILV reaching her present position. After a postdoctoral position at the MPI for Colloid and Interfaces (Berlin, Germany), she rejoined the LCMCP as a lecturer for about 11 years working on the development of hybrid materials by assembling metal oxides and biomolecules (biopolymers, enzymes, etc.). She completed her PhD on the synthesis of Ti-oxo clusters in 1997 in the Laboratory Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris at the University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC-Paris VI).
Nathalie Steunou is professor at the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles (ILV) from the University of Versailles St Quentin-en-Yvelines/Université Paris Saclay. His research interests mainly focus on the design, elaboration and study of robust MOFs. Since 2016, he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, working under the supervision of Prof. In 2013, he joined the “Porous Solids” group at the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, France, where he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr Christian Serre and Dr Thomas Devic.
He received his MSc (2009) and PhD (2012) degrees in Macro- and Supramolecular Chemistry from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France, under the supervision of Dr Jean-Pascal Sutter and Dr Nans Roques. Her current research focuses on the synthesis of nano-catalyst materials for water splitting. In 2017, she joined the group of Dr Myrtil Kahn at Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination CNRS, Toulouse, France, as postdoctoral researcher. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Versailles St Quentin-en-Yvelines/Université Paris Saclay, France, under the supervision of Dr Christian Serre and Dr Thomas Devic. She achieved her Master’s in Materials Chemistry in 2013 at Lebanese University of Beirut.
Hala Assi, 26 years old, originates from Lebanon. Not only Ti-MOFs but also Ti-oxo-clusters will be discussed and particular interest will be dedicated to highlight the different successful synthetic strategies allowing to overcome the still “unpredictable” reactivity of titanium ions, particularly to afford crystalline porous coordination polymers. This review aims at giving an overview of the recent progress in this field focusing on the most relevant existing titanium coordination compounds as well as their promising photoredox properties. Nevertheless, Ti-MOFs are still very scarce because of their challenging synthesis associated with a poor degree of control of their chemistry and crystallization. Owing to their promise in photocatalysis and optoelectronics, titanium based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are one of the most appealing classes of MOFs reported to date.
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