Traditionally, porous silica, [10,11] lyotropic liquid crystals, [12,13] and nanospheres assemblies [14,15] have been employed in this process. However, the amorphous backbones of these materials intrinsically inhibit the design of structures with molecular accuracy, and the casted phases are limited to low surface areas. More structurally defined crystalline zeolites have been shown to function as templates for casting highly porous carbon with controlled structures; [16,17] however, introducing metals or metal oxides into zeolites generally leads to the formation of isolated particles instead of extended porous networks. [18,19] As such, developing effective templates for casting nanoporous materials with tunable and controllable structures remains a significant challenge. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of nanoporous crystalline materials with well-defined structures and high surface areas. [20][21][22] MOFs are ideally suited as templates for nanocasting process because of their high porosities, accessible interconnected pore structures, and crystalline backbones. Due to the modular construction based on the discrete polynuclear inorganic clusters (secondary building units, SBUs) and organic linkers, the structure type (topology) and metrics of MOFs can be tailored to achieve the desired pore size and surface area. [23,24] While syntheses of nanoporous carbon [25] and metal oxides [26,27] within MOF templates have been reported, in both cases the replica phases show ill-defined structures with poor ordering. More recently, it was reported that ultrathin, well-aligned metallic nanowires can be uniformly casted into zirconium-based MOF-545, [28] where the MOF's 1D channels are critical for confining the growth of the nanowires. However, casting ordered and porous 3D nanostructures in MOFs still remains an outstanding challenge.The difficulty of using MOFs as templates for nanocasting lies in controlling the process such that casting occurs exclusively inside of the internal void space instead of aggregation on the external surface of the crystal. [29][30][31][32] In this report, we demonstrate that metallic Pt structures can be effectively casted into zirconium-based MOFs by a two-step infiltration/reduction process. Upon removal of the MOF template, nanoporous Pt networks (NP-Pt) with periodic order and high internal surface areas are obtained. We show that the key to avoiding Nanocasting based on porous templates is a powerful strategy in accessing materials and structures that are difficult to form by bottom-up syntheses in a controlled fashion. A facile synthetic strategy for casting ordered, nanoporous platinum (NP-Pt) networks with a high degree of control by using metalorganic frameworks (MOFs) as templates is reported here. The Pt precursor is first infiltrated into zirconium-based MOFs and subsequently transformed to 3D metallic networks via a chemical reduction process. It is demonstrated that the dimensions and topologies of the cast NP-Pt networks can be accurately controlled by using di...