“…Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) belong to this family of materials and represent one of the most current advances in coordination chemistry and supramolecular engineering ( Tanaka 2020 ). MOFs are hybrid extended networks derived from inorganic units (as isolated cations, chains, clusters) and organic polydentate ligands, building a flexible family of crystalline compounds with an extraordinary variety of applications in chemical and material sciences ( Rojas et al, 2019 ), including gas storage ( Qasem et al, 2018 ), catalysis ( Hong et al, 2021 ), luminescence ( Huang et al, 2019 ; Liu et al, 2021a ), electrochemistry ( Wen et al, 2012 ; Wang et al, 2020 ), and separation ( Kadioglu and Keskin 2018 ). MOFs with biomedical and pharmaceutical properties have been reported as carriers for the controlled delivery of different active species ( Mileo et al, 2021 ), for cutaneous and cosmetic treatments ( Duan et al, 2021 ), and as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging ( Zhang et al, 2018 ; Hu et al, 2021 ), not disregarding the potential biomedical/pharmaceutical applications in cancer ( Zhang et al, 2018 ; Li et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2021b ; Liu et al, 2021c ) and antimicrobial ( André et al, 2021 ; Liu et al, 2021d ) therapies.…”