The industrialization process of covalent organic framework materials (COFs) continues to accelerate, and the market has huge development potential.

Covalent Organic Frameworks, referred to as COFs materials, also known as organic zeolites, are porous crystalline framework materials with a two-dimensional topology formed by π-conjugated building units connected by covalent bonds. It is composed of light elements such as C, H, O, N, and B. According to different structures, COFs materials can be divided into two categories: two-dimensional COFs materials and three-dimensional COFs materials.

According to the“2023-2028 Covalent Organic Framework Materials (COFs) Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospect Forecast Analysis Report” released by the Industrial Research Center 》It shows that covalent organic framework materials have advantageous properties such as high crystallinity, large specific surface area, high conductivity, high porosity, low skeleton density, and high thermochemical stability. They are widely used in organic electronic devices. , gas storage and separation, biomedicine, catalytic chemical industry, seawater desalination, fluorescence sensing, optoelectronic materials, energy storage and other fields have broad application prospects.

Specifically, in the field of seawater desalination, seawater desalination membranes made of COFs materials have good rejection rates, water flux, high salinity tolerance, and scaling resistance, and can achieve ultra-fast seawater desalination; in the catalytic chemical industry In the field of gas storage and separation, COFs heterogeneous catalysts made of COFs materials can be used in organic chemistry, electrochemistry, and photochemical reaction scenarios; in the field of gas storage and separation, COFs materials have been widely used in the storage and separation scenarios of hydrogen, methane and other gases; in In the field of organic electronic devices, COFs materials mainly exist in the form of thin films and are used in high-performance memristor manufacturing scenarios.

With excellent comprehensive properties and broad application prospects, COFs materials have become a hot research topic for domestic and foreign enterprises and institutions. In recent years, advanced achievements in COFs materials from various countries are constantly emerging. For example, in March 2021, scholars from the University of Bayreuth in Germany developed a flexible, mechanically stable, porous and self-supporting covalent organic framework superfiber network membrane; in December 2022 In March, scholars at Henan University of Science and Technology in China developed a new method for the synthesis of ordered cage-type microporous two-dimensional covalent organic framework materials.

COFs material is an emerging crystalline porous material. It is mainly synthesized through boron condensation, triazine trimerization, imine condensation or solvothermal synthesis. It has production difficulties such as difficult production and high synthesis cost, as well as high crystallinity and high stability. Technical dilemmas such as difficulty in having both sex. Due to development difficulties, my country’s COFs materials have not yet achieved large-scale mass production. However, in the future, as domestic enterprises and institutions continue to accelerate the related research and development process, the development difficulties of COFs materials will be continuously broken through, and the industrialization process is expected to continue to accelerate.

Industrial Analysis personnel stated that in June 2023, Suzhou Baolidi Materials Company issued an announcement that the company planned to Establish a joint venture to conduct research and development, sales, and marketing of covalent organic framework materials (COFs) new material projects. In the future, driven by the rapid development of the downstream market and the continued growth in demand for COFs materials, domestic COFs material projects are expected to accelerate, domestic COFs materials are expected to achieve large-scale mass production, and the industry has huge development potential.