“…Several methods have been developed for the synthesis of CTFs, which are ionothermal synthesis [6], superacid catalysis [10], transition metal coupling reactions [11], and polycondensation method [12]. CTFs are reported to be practicable in a number of functional applications, such as gas adsorption and storage [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29], heterogeneous catalysis [14,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43], energy storage and conversion [44,45,46,47], photocatalysis [12,48,49,50,51,52]. In this review, we selected typical examples of CTFs reported in the literature and reviewed the recent development in their synthesis and application in gas adsorption and catalysis in relation to energy and environment issues.…”