Two‐dimensional MOFs: Design & Synthesis and Applications

Abstract For the past few years, two‐dimensional materials have attracted widespread attention owing to their special properties and potential applications. It is well‐known that graphene, transition metal disulfide compounds (TMDC), carbon nitride, transition metal carbonitrides (Mxenes), silene and hexagonal boron nitride are typical two‐dimensional materials. Compared with these traditional two‐dimensional materials, two‐dimensional MOF is favored by numerous researchers because of its unique structure. Based on the unique metal ion and organic ligand coordination of MOF and two‐dimensional layered structure, the applications of two‐dimensional MOF were getting serious, including catalysis, supercapacitor, gas adsorption/separation, sensors and so on. This review presents a relatively comprehensive summary of the design & synthesis and applications of two‐dimensional MOF over the past few years. Furthermore, the opportunities and challenges have been discussed to supply a promising prospect to this field.