“…They stand out among polymer materials owing to their properties, for instance, large surface area, adjustable structure and high porosity (Furukawa et al, 2010;Zhou et al, 2012;Long & Yaghi, 2009). Extensive efforts have been devoted to synthesizing and investigating novel MOFs, not only because of their intriguing structures and distinctive topologies, but also due to their promising applications as functional materials in many fields, such as luminescence (Cui et al, 2012a,b;Hu et al, 2014Hu et al, , 2020Liu & Dai, 2018;Yu et al, 2020;Singh, 2018Singh, , 2019Singh & Bhim, 2016), drug delivery and release (Chen et al, 2018a,b;Zheng et al, 2016;Pan et al, 2020), gas storage and separation (Li et al, 2009(Li et al, , 2017Lee et al, 2009;Gong et al, 2009;Taylor et al, 2018), catalysis (Parmar et al, 2018;He et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2019;Pan et al, 2019;Singh & Bharadwaj, 2013), supercapacitors (Liu et al, 2020) and magnetism (Cheng et al, 2010;Tian et al, 2015;Xu et al, 2003). As is well known, the construction of stable coordination frameworks is mainly dependent on a combination of several factors, such as the organic ligand, solvent, metal centre, pH value, temperature, and so on (Mu et al, 2012;Sun et al, 2013;Bu et al, 2002;Liu et al, 2007;Zhang et al, 2009;Manna et al, 2014).…”