Talk:Coordination polymer

this should be merged with metal-organic frameworks and the terminology cleared up. MOFs must be porous, coordination polymer is a more inclusive term but is limited in terms of dimensionality. Neither is perfect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.250.52 (talk) 06:26, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually, there is no rule that MOF:s should be porous, please see: Coordination polymers, metal–organic frameworks and the need for terminology guidelines Stuart R. Batten, Neil R. Champness, Xiao-Ming Chen, Javier Garcia-Martinez, Susumu Kitagawa, Lars Öhrström, Michael O'Keeffe, Myunghyun Paik Suh and Jan Reedijk CrystEngComm, 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2CE06488J LRO 129.16.96.212 (talk) 07:32, 27 March 2012 (UTC)