Advances in microporous inorganic borates, germanates and borogermanates

As a new type of potential functional materials, microporous inorganic solids with boron and germanate elements have attracted much attention in the last few years. In this paper, the progress in the synthetic and typical structural chemistry of borates, germanates and borogermanates, has been reviewed in detail. The new prospects of such materials have also been discussed, considering the construction of inorganic materials with B-O, Ge-O and B-Ge-O clusters.