Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making an adsorbent material for protection and sensing applications from gas and liquid phase media by grafting sorbent moieties onto a rigid scaffold. The grafting can be to an organic linker of a metal organic framework by post synthetic modification, to the metal nodes of the metal organic framework via ligand displacement, or by intercalating the sorbent moiety into the pores of the metal organic framework either during formation of the scaffold or by diffusion into the pores after the scaffold is formed.