Metal organic frameworks for sensing applications

TLDR: This review focuses on recent progress achieved in MOF research with respect to general sensing principles and analytical performance, and discusses future industrial applications in sensing that are of immense research interest.

Abstract: A metal organic framework (MOF) represents a new class of hybrid material built from metal ions with well-defined coordination geometry and organic bridging ligands Over the past few years, MOFs have attracted a great deal of attention due to their intriguing framework architecture, topology, and optical properties MOFs have provided promising perspectives in various research fields, such as catalysis, energy storage, drug-delivery systems, non-linear optics, and gas storage Recently, the application of MOFs was further extended to cover new, interesting fields of sensing toward various target components, including small molecules, solvents, pesticides, explosives, and biological markers In this review, we focus on recent progress achieved in MOF research with respect to general sensing principles and analytical performance This review also discusses future industrial applications in sensing that are of immense research interest