Issue 15, 2023

Nanoscale designing of metal organic framework moieties as efficient tools for environmental decontamination

Abstract

Environmental pollutants, being a major and detrimental component of the ecological imbalance, need to be controlled. Serious health issues can get intensified due to contaminants present in the air, water, and soil. Accurate and rapid monitoring of environmental pollutants is imperative for the detoxification of the environment and hence living beings. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous and highly diverse adsorbent materials with tunable surface area and diverse functionality. Similarly, the conversion of MOFs into nanoscale regime leads to the formation of nanometal–organic frameworks (NMOFs) with increased selectivity, sensitivity, detection ability, and portability. The present review majorly focuses on a variety of synthetic methods including the ex situ and in situ synthesis of MOF nanocomposites and direct synthesis of NMOFs. Furthermore, a variety of applications such as nanoabsorbent, nanocatalysts, and nanosensors for different dyes, antibiotics, toxic ions, gases, pesticides, etc., are described along with illustrations. An initiative is depicted hereby using nanostructures of MOFs to decontaminate hazardous environmental toxicants.

Graphical abstract: Nanoscale designing of metal organic framework moieties as efficient tools for environmental decontamination

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
18 Mar 2023
Accepted
12 Jun 2023
First published
15 Jun 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 3782-3802

Nanoscale designing of metal organic framework moieties as efficient tools for environmental decontamination

I. Sharma, J. Kaur, G. Poonia, S. K. Mehta and R. Kataria, Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 3782 DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00169E

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