Advances in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) resulted in significant contributions to diverse applications such as carbon capture, gas storage, heat transformation and separation along with emerging applications toward catalysis, medical imaging, drug delivery, and sensing. The unique in situ and ex situ structural features of MOFs can be tailored by conceptual selection of the organic (e.g., ligand) and inorganic (e.g., metal) components. Here, we provide a comprehensive review on the synthesis and characterization of MOFs, particularly with respect to controlling their size and morphology. A better understanding of the specific size and morphological parameters of MOFs will help initiate a new era for their real-world applications. Most importantly, this assessment will help develop novel synthesis methods for MOFs and their hybrid/porous materials counterparts with considerably improved properties in targeted applications.

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金属有机框架（MOF）的进步为诸如碳捕获，气体存储，热转化和分离之类的各种应用以及对催化，医学成像，药物输送和传感的新兴应用做出了重大贡献。独特的原地和异地MOF的结构特征可以通过对有机（例如，配体）和无机（例如，金属）组分的概念选择来定制。在这里，我们对MOF的合成和表征提供了全面的综述，特别是在控制MOF的大小和形态方面。更好地了解MOF的具体尺寸和形态参数将有助于开创其实际应用的新纪元。最重要的是，该评估将有助于开发MOF及其杂化/多孔材料对应物的新颖合成方法，并在目标应用中显着改善其性能。

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