An overview of Metal–Organic Frameworks as potential platform: Sensing for detection environmental pollutants and drug delivery applications

Abstract

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) represent a novel class of materials, characterized by their ability to form extended porous crystalline structures through the linkage of inorganic clusters or metallic ions with organic ligands. The availability of broad range of metal centres and type of organic linkers gives us opportunity for tailoring physical and chemical properties of MOFs. These modified MOFs opens up new channels for the customization of new devices needed for specific purposes. Though MOFs have been explored for significant applications in different sectors such as gas storage, proton conduction, biotechnological, biomedical sciences, catalysis, and separation, but drug delivery and the sensing applications has been taken exclusively at the manuscript. So, this article entails an overview of various synthetic methodology of low dimensional MOFs such as 1D and 2-D MOFs, and also focuses on their applications in sensing and drug delivery. This stems from their remarkable catalytic chemistry and their compatibility with a broad spectrum of materials. Furthermore, the 2-D layered structure of MOFs and their distinctive coordination of metal ions with organic ligands have emerging interest in the recent years.