“…1,2 Depending on the different metal ions and organic bridging ligands combined in their synthesis, they may exhibit very diverse architectures and morphologies, such as cubes, arrows, plates, hexagonal lumps, rods, fibers, tubes and crosses. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Furthermore, inorganic sorbents 30 and microporous replicas 31 33,34 These last examples of the use of MOFs as templates are specially interesting for the development of novel structured materials with high added value applications, as the arrangement of the parent material into singular particles imposes a strong morphology and size control, allowing an accurate monitoring of the fabrication process. In this sense, MOF structures have been mostly proposed as precursors for obtaining crystalline metal oxides particles with ordered micropores and porous carbon nanostructured materials via thermal decomposition under controlled atmosphere.…”