Editorial for special issue "functional coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks"

[Extract] Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Coordination Polymers (CPs) are at the forefront of contemporary coordination chemistry research, as witnessed by the impressive (and ever-growing) number of publications appearing in the literature on this topic in the last 20 years (Figure 1), reaching almost 4000 papers in 2020. Among them, several recent review articles and books clearly illustrate the huge potential of this class of compounds...