Nanoscale designing of metal organic framework moieties as efficient tools for environmental decontamination.
Indu SharmaJaspreet KaurGargi PooniaSurinder Kumar MehtaRamesh KatariaPublished in: Nanoscale advances (2023)
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.
Keyphrases
- metal organic framework
- human health
- risk assessment
- life cycle
- healthcare
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- public health
- atomic force microscopy
- mental health
- climate change
- quality improvement
- drinking water
- quantum dots
- health information
- gold nanoparticles
- health promotion
- carbon nanotubes
- simultaneous determination