Significant progress has been made in both fields of atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in recent years. A promising direction is to integrate these two classes of materials for creating unique composites with improved properties for catalysis and other applications. NCs incorporated with MOFs exhibit an optimized catalytic performance in many catalytic reactions, in which MOFs play a vital supporting role or as cocatalysts. In this Perspective, we first provide a brief summary of the methods that have been developed for the preparation of NCs/MOF composites and the characteristics of these strategies are analyzed. Following that, some recent works are highlighted to demonstrate the crucial role of MOF matrices in the enhancement of NCs catalytic properties. Finally, we outline some potentially important aspects for future work. This Perspective is in hopes of stimulating more interest in the research on the integration of NCs with MOFs toward functional materials.

近年来，原子级精确的金属纳米团簇（NC）和金属有机框架（MOF）领域都取得了重大进展。一个有前途的方向是将这两类材料整合起来，创造出具有改进的催化和其他应用性能的独特复合材料。与 MOF 结合的 NC 在许多催化反应中表现出优化的催化性能，其中 MOF 发挥着重要的支持作用或作为助催化剂。在这篇文章中，我们首先对NCs/MOF复合材料的制备方法进行了简要总结，并分析了这些策略的特点。接下来，重点介绍了一些最近的工作，以证明 MOF 基质在增强 NC 催化性能方面的关键作用。最后，我们概述了未来工作的一些潜在的重要方面。该观点希望激发人们对NC与MOFs集成功能材料研究的更多兴趣。