covalently bonded organic moieties. Because of their unique properties derived from their tunable porous structures and the multiple functional groups, which can be included in their backbones, POPs have been actively investigated for multiple applications including gas storage/separation, [2,3] catalysis, [4][5][6] optoelectronics, [7,8] sensing, [9][10][11] energy storage, and conversion. [12,13] Aside from their high specific surface areas, they furthermore show excellent chemical stability, light-weight and a versatile chemistry for modification and functionalization. POPs can be further classified into two categories based on their crystallinity. Crystalline POPs are usually summarized under the name covalent organic frameworks [14][15][16] (COFs). Amorphous POPs are further divided, based on their structure or construction principles into hyper-crosslinked polymers [17,18] (HCPs), polymers of intrinsic microporosity [19,20] (PIMs), porous aromatic frameworks [21,22] (PAFs), and others. Recent research has seen increasing interest on amorphous POPs, especially when their skeleton is π-conjugated. In these highly porous networks, π-conjugation is superimposed with meso-/microporosities, i.e., electron transport in the polymer backbone is accompanied by mass transport in the porous system, which enable many intriguing properties and applications, e.g., in energy storage and conversion, [23,24] or optoelectronics. [25,26] As such, the importance of π-conjugation in porous polymer networks has defined another emerging functional POP class-the conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs). As mentioned, such CMPs [27] are a unique class of POPs exhibiting extended π-conjugated structures and permanent nanopores (Table S1). Earlier, McKeown et al. [28] discussed an important concept of preparing robust nanoporous materials by the covalent binding of planar molecules via a rigid spirocyclic linker. In 2007, Cooper et al. [29] reported a highly cross-linked, microporous poly(arylene ethynylene)s network, thus the first microporous polymer network with distinct π-conjugation and introduced the term "conjugated microporous polymer (CMP)" for this class of materials. Since their discovery, CMPs chemistry has intrigued scientists across the globe and been promoted rapidly, resulting in a strong growth in publications over the last decade. For instance, Thomas et al. [30] reported a spirobifluorene-type CMP with stable interface and application potential in organic light emitting diodes Since discovered in 2007, conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) have been developed for numerous applications including gas adsorption, sensing, organic and photoredox catalysis, energy storage, etc. While featuring abundant micropores, the structural rigidity derived from CMPs' stable π-conjugated skeleton leads to insolubility and thus poor processability, which severely limits their applicability, e.g., in CMP-based devices. Hence, the development of CMPs whose structure can not only be controlled on the micro-but also on the macroscale have...

Seawater evaporation realized by solar-thermal conversion represents one of the most sustainable and effective strategies to obtain fresh water. Many approaches have been proposed to achieve high efficiencies of solar-thermal conversion, but their practical applications are limited by the low scalability. Herein, novel porphyrin/aniline-based conjugated microporous polymers (PACMPs) are synthesized via a Buchwald–Hartwig coupling reaction, which are then integrated with polyurethane sponges via a simple dip-coating technique. The PACMP-modified sponges (PACSs) retain the high porosity of the sponge substrate and excellent solar-thermal conversion properties of PACMPs. Under standard solar irradiation (1 kW m–2), PACSs achieve a high seawater evaporation rate of 1.31 kg m–2 h–1 with a solar-thermal conversion efficiency of 86.3%. PACSs show no salt accumulation and high performance of desalination and dye decolorization, removing >99.9% salt and >99.2% dye, respectively. The self-floating characteristic, recyclability, and durable solar-thermal evaporation efficiencies enable PACSs to be promising candidate materials for seawater desalination and sewage purification.

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Several isostructural lanthanide metal–organic frameworks, viz. [Ln­(DCHB) 1.5 phen] n (Ln-MOFs, where Ln = Eu for 1, Tb for 2, Sm for 3 and Dy for 4), are successfully synthesized through the hydrothermal reactions of 4′-di­(4-carboxylphenoxy)­hydroxyl-2, 2′-bipyridyl (H2DCHB) and lanthanide nitrates as well as chelator 1,10-phenantroline (phen). These structures are characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and the representative Ln-MOF 1 is a fivefold interpenetrated framework with the uncoordinated Lewis base N sites form DCHB2– ligands. The photoluminescence research studies reveal that Ln-MOFs 1–4 exhibit characteristic fluorescent emissions from ligand-induced lanthanide Ln­(III) ions, while the single-component emission spectra of Ln-MOF 4 are all located in a white region under different excitations. The absence of coordinated water and the interpenetration property of the structures are conducive to the structure rigidity, and the results display that Ln-MOF 1 has high thermal/chemical stabilities in common solvents and a wide pH range as well as the boiling water. Notably, luminescent sensing studies reveal that Ln-MOF 1 with prominent fluorescence properties can perform in highly sensitive and selective sensing of vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) in aqueous systems (K SV = 562.8 L·mol–1; LOD = 4.6 × 10–4 M), which can potentially establish a detection platform for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma via multiquenching mechanisms. Moreover, the 1@MMMs sensing membranes comprised of Ln-MOF 1 and a poly­(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) polymer can also be facilely developed for VMA detection in aqueous media, suggesting the enhanced convenience and efficiency of practical sensing applications.

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