Abstract Developing efficient synthetic strategies to construct luminescent MOF materials combined triazolate and tetracarboxylate linkers are still great challenges. In this work, by employing a mixed ligand strategy, a new luminescent Zn-MOF based on mixed carboxylate-azolate ligands was synthesized through a DMF/DMSO system, namely, {Zn6(ABTC)2(TRZ)4(H2O)4(DMSO)2} (MOF1) (ABTC4- = 3,3′,5,5′-azobenzenetetracarboxylate, TRZ− = 1,2,4-triazole). In this framework, two types of inorganic SBUs and two different conformations of ABTC4− ligands assemble into a 3D framework with three different types of open channels. More importantly, MOF1 exhibits a strong blue luminescence property in the solid state at room temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]