Organic-inorganic hybrid polymers with interpenetrating porosity, tunable chemical structures, and excellent performance have attracted tremendous attention. Recently, there has been increasing interest in delivering advanced organic-inorganic hybrid polymers for energy utilization and environmental remediation. The focus of current research for these purposes is on various organic-inorganic hybrid polymers including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), zeolitic-imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), mixed matrix polymeric membrane, porous metal oxide/sulfide/phosphide hybrid materials.

The conventional techniques of separation, such as amine scrubbing, are highly energy-intensive. As alternatives, adsorption or catalysis is technically feasible and economically viable with the advantages of easy operation, low cost, and high efficiency. In these techniques, it is critically important to design and develop novel high-performance adsorbents or catalysts. Despite organic-inorganic hybrid polymers being up-and-coming candidates in the adsorption and catalysis applications, more synthesis strategies and microscopic mechanisms are required to investigate promising organic-inorganic hybrid polymers with high efficiency and low cost for the fields of energy and the environment.

This Special Issue is open to original research papers on recent advances in designing and advancing organic-inorganic hybrid polymers for the gas adsorption and separation, catalysis, and thermal energy storage. Accepted review articles will provide a state-of-the-art overview of the progress over the last years in the design, synthesis, characterization, simulation, and application of organic-inorganic hybrid polymer.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Development, synthesis, and characterization of new organic-inorganic hybrid polymeric materials
• Calculation and simulation of the structure-property relationships of organic-inorganic hybrid polymers
• Incorporation of different inorganic substances in the polymeric matrix, such as metal oxides/sulfide/phosphide, and graphene
• Studying the potential applications of organic-inorganic hybrid polymers:
  • Adsorption separation and purification of gases
  • Storage of gases (H2, CO2, CH4, etc.)
  • Catalysis including oxidation-reduction reactions
  • Thermal energy storage