“…All of these approaches share a common theme; the intermingling, on the nanometer scale, of dissimilar materials for the purpose of creating new materials with properties not available from either of the component pure materials. ver the past two decades, a lot of coordination polymers [1](nonporous CPs and porous CPs also called metal-organic frameworks, MOFs) have been synthesized based on a variety of organic ligands and they exhibit the fascinating functional properties and potential applications in the fields such as luminescence [2e5], magnetism [6,7], gas storage [8e10], sensor, catalysis, ion exchange [17e19], and so on. Besides the properties, the coordination polymers also show us the charming architectural aesthetics in the microscopic universe, such as the interpenetration, interlocking, selfcatenation, helix, metal-carboxylate chainbased structures (also called rod-packing structures), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks featuring four-connected tetrahedral topologies, pillared layered structures and so on.…”