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Strategies for the synthesis of frameworks materials based upon either coordination bonds or hydrogen-bonding interactions are described. The utilization of coordinate bonds for the construction of coordination frameworks is presented describing not only strategies for controlling framework structure but also illustrating how such networks can be used for applications in the storage of guest species, such as H2. The exploitation of hydrogen-bonding for generating self-assembled surface arrays is also described, again illustrating controlled molecular entrapment in materials science for many years, predominantly due to the necessity to control solid-state structure on the micro-, meso- or nano-scale to infer given properties to a material. Porous materials have enjoyed a particularly high profile in this area of chemistry due to their ability to accommodate guest species within their overall arrangement thus acting as storage vessels for the guest. In addition porous arrays can act to position molecules, or small particles, acting as a synthetic mould to prepare new nano-structured arrays. This article serves to bring together two seemingly distinct areas of materials science, coordination frameworks and surface self-assembled structures, and draws comparisons between the respective strategies employed for ultimately similar aims. Both areas utilize supramolecular chemistry and intermolecular interactions, whether coordination bonds or |
