Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 14, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym14214710
Keywords
MOF technology; biomedical applications; biomolecules; drug; toxicity
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- Science Engineering Research Board (SERB), Central University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOF) technology in biomedical applications faces challenges in selecting metal ions/organic linkers, synthesis techniques, water stability/solubility, toxicity, and biomolecule/drug tagging/conjugation. However, MOF technology offers interesting features such as biological or pharmacological activity, biocompatibility, limited toxicity, specific host-guest interactions, and environmental friendliness.
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.
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