“…For many optical devices, the ability to deposit homogeneous and continuous MOFs thin films on transparent substrates plays a crucial role, which can greatly extend the usage scenarios of MOFs. − Among the MOFs thin film preparation methods, liquid-phase epitaxial (LPE) and layer-by-layer (LBL) techniques have been developed to prepare monolithic, uniform, and compact MOF thin films on substrate surfaces, which are referred to as surface-coordinated MOF thin films (SURMOFs). , These films are particularly well-suited for third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) applications. , In this context, porphyrinic MOFs thin films made by the LPE LBL method with automatic facility have distinct benefits due to their low surface roughness, monolithic construction, robust adherence to the substrate surface, controlled orientation, and customizable thickness. Then, by using a postcoordinated process with different valent cations in the porphyrinic group of MOFs, the symmetry of the pristine porphyrinic MOFs structure can be broken.…”