Recent Progress in Porous Fused Aromatic Networks and Their Applications

Porous materials are ubiquitous in nature and play central roles in ecosystems and human life. Porous fused aromatic networks (P-FANs) are emerging as a new class of porous organic materials, which can be precisely constructed from organic precursors via the formation of irreversible fused aromatic rings. Despite the luculent advantages offered by P-FANs, the research community has conventionally focused on more synthetically accessible covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which mostly involve reversible condensation reactions. An overview of the trend in the field of P-FANs and their possible applications in different fields, including proton conduction, catalysis, gas storage, supercapacitors, and optoelectronics, is presented herein.