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New structural discovery has a lot of potential for accessing new functional materials for environmental and energy purposes. Although cage-based porous materials, such as metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs), are gaining interest as a developing functional platform for a variety of applications, packing patterns that are rarely foreseeable and appear uncontrollable remain an unresolved subject.

Multifunctional porous solids that have different functionalized linkers have been used as potential materials for numerous applications in biomedical, energy, and environmental fields.

A recent study, affiliated with South Koreas Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has unveiled a new synthetic approach for controlling functional group assemblies in porous solids by using metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs). Their findings are expected to have attracted attention as a useful synthetic strategy for catalysis, gas storage, and molecular separation.