“…In recent decades, metal organic coordination polymers emerged as an ideal analytical platform for the exploitation of the on-site probes, − the uninterruptedly emerged metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)-based assays, for example. , Nevertheless, the relatively rigid coordination mode of MOFs renders difficulty for the rational design of host–guest interactions to multiply the signal readout, which is necessitated for the establishment of double-ratio colorimetric and fluorometric dual-mode sensing assay. With distinct flexibility, another counterpart of MOFs, the amorphous infinite coordination polymers (ICPs) are coming to the forefront of researchers’ minds. ,, First, the structural flexibility always endows the self-adaptive inclusion of not only one but also different tailor-made guests simultaneously. , This offers a new opportunity to break through the luminescent response restriction from lanthanide ICP host, and then, the development of lanthanide-free ICP to meet the requirement of national strategy resource storage is facilitated. , Second, the infinite coordination mode allows for the exquisite design of complex host–guest interactions within the ICPs to inherit the improved optical characteristics from the host and the guests. − Third, the flexibility enabled their quick response to the external stimuli in the form of the chemical structure alteration and the corresponding multiple optical responses, − which may lay out the foundation for designing the dual-mode sensing strategy.…”