Glasses are typically formed by melt-quenching, that is, cooling of a liquid on a timescale fast enough to avoid ordering to a crystalline state, and formerly thought to comprise three categories: inorganic (non-metallic), organic and metallic. Their impact is huge, providing safe containers, allowing comfortable and bright living spaces and even underlying the foundations of modern telecommunication. This impact is tempered by the inability to chemically design glasses with precise, well-defined and tunable structures: the literal quest for order in disorder. However, metal–organic or hybrid glasses are now considered to belong to a fourth category of glass chemistry. They have recently been demonstrated upon melt-quenching of coordination polymer, metal–organic framework and hybrid perovskite framework solids. In this Review, we discuss hybrid glasses through the lens of both crystalline metal–organic framework and glass chemistry, physics and engineering, to provide a vision for the future of this class of materials.

玻璃通常是通过熔融淬火形成的，即在足够快的时间尺度上冷却液体以避免有序到结晶状态，以前认为玻璃分为三类：无机（非金属）、有机和金属。它们的影响是巨大的，提供安全的容器，提供舒适明亮的生活空间，甚至是现代电信的基础。这种影响因无法通过化学方式设计出具有精确、定义明确和可调结构的眼镜而得到缓和：这是在无序中对秩序的字面追求。然而，金属-有机或混合玻璃现在被认为属于玻璃化学的第四类。它们最近在配位聚合物、金属-有机框架和杂化钙钛矿框架固体的熔融淬火中得到了证明。在这篇综述中，我们从结晶金属-有机框架和玻璃化学、物理学和工程的角度讨论了混合玻璃，为这类材料的未来提供了愿景。