A review on state of art and perspectives of Metal-Organic frameworks (MOFs) in the fight against coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a class of hybrid inorganic-organic porous materials whose development and applications have been intensively studied. The exceptional surface area, structural variability, the richness of their crystal structures and architectures allow for engineering synergies between metal nodes, functional linkers, encapsulated substrates or nanoparticles for gas adsorption and separation, heterogeneous catalysis, ion exchange, drug delivery, energetics and many more. The present review reflects on the current global pandemic situation associated with the COVID-19 disease and summarizes the applications and perspectives of MOF materials in the fight against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It is mainly focused on selected MOF compounds, their crystal structures, textural properties, possible modification and application in diagnosis and elimination of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Keywords:

• Metal-organic frameworks
• MOF
• SARS-CoV-2
• COVID-19
• detection
• elimination

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Funding

This work was supported by the Development Operational Programme Integrated Infrastructure for the project “Nanoparticles for solving diagnostic-therapeutic problems with COVID-19 (NANOVIR)”, ITMS 2014+:313011AUW7, co-founded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).