The New directions in porous crystalline materials: Faraday Discussion, organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry will take place from 5th June to 7th June 2017 at the The Royal Society of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like new directions in gas sorption and separation with mofs, electronic, magnetic, and photophysical properties of mofs and cofs, catalysis in mofs, mofs modelling and theory.