Gas Sensors Based on Copper-Containing Metal-Organic Frameworks, Coordination Polymers, and Complexes.

In the last years, chemical research has allowed the obtainment of a large number of new sensing compounds useful in diverse interest areas related to health, environment, food, automotive, and steel industries, among others. Taking into account the interest and demand of sensors on a large scale and the urgent need to reduce the size of devices to nanometric scale, coordination compounds (CCs) -and more specifically those based on copper- have gained full acceptance. CCs present exciting characteristics such as (i) dynamic structures, (ii) ability to form an immense variety of porous structures, or (iii) easy nano processing.