Novel materials have been developed because of technological advancements combined with material research. Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) technology has been investigated for biomedical applications in this line. Nonetheless, as our team has learned from current literature, selecting metal ions/organic linkers, synthesis techniques, water stability/solubility, toxicity, and the possibility of biomolecules/drugs (enzyme, protein, DNA/RNA, and antibodies, among others) tagging/conjugation are the major challenges/factors. These issues/factors have an impact on MOFs’ performance in biomedical applications, and they also raise a lot of doubts about its real-time biological utility in the near future. We targeted a comprehensive review on the MOFs for biomedical applications to keep these considerations in mind. The evolution of MOF technology is based on their interesting features such as biological or pharmacological activity, biocompatibility, limited toxicity, and particular host–guest interactions, as well as environmental friendliness. In this paper, we have summarized the state-of-the-art progress pertaining to MOFs’ biomedical applications such as biosensing, biomedical, and drug delivery applications in this field that is still very new.
Coordination polymerization produces a variety of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), each with its own set of physical & chemical properties. Making MOFs suitably conductive in nature, is one of the hurdles faced to be utilized its potential practical applications. To explore the electrical conductivity’s features of MOFs, NH2-Al-MOF, ZnQ@ZIF-8 and Al-MIL-53 MOF have been treated with NaOH, H2SO4, and HCl. Acid/Alkaline doped MOFs have been utilized to prepare conducting thin films on indium tin oxide (ITO) slides using drop-casted method. Electrical feature analysis has indicated reduction in overall resistance of NH2-Al-MOF < ZnQ@ZIF-8 < Al-MIL-53. The prepared MOFs thin films have been used for malathion detection. We have found limit of detection (LOD) i.e., 1.668 mg/L 2.386 mg/L and 2.397 mg/L for malathion using doped MOFs, respectively.
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