“…Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), as an important class of advanced functional materials, have received extensive attention due to their great potential application in various research areas, such as gas adsorption/storage [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ], liquid separation [ 6 ], drug delivery [ 4 , 7 ], and heterogeneous catalysis [ 8 , 9 , 10 ]. Among different classes of MOFs, lanthanide MOFs (LnMOFs) [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ], which can be synthesized using a wide range of lanthanide cations and organic ligands, have been investigated in the fields of coordination chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and material chemistry, not only for their diverse architectures due to high coordination numbers and large ionic radii of lanthanide cations, but also for the potential applications in the field of luminescence [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ], because of their increased brightness and emission quantum yield [ 22 , 23 ], and also in magnetism [ 11 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ]. To obtain functional MOFs, considerable efforts have been made and tremendous progress has been achieved.…”