ABSTRACT
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and their most common subclasses have been studied extensively in recent decades by several researchers. Design and development MOF biocomposites is a rapidly growing field and has also found applications in different fields including protection and delivery of biopharmaceuticals, biosensing, biocatalysis, biobanking, and cell and virus manipulation. Given their place in the use for different applications compared to other nanocarriers such as dendrimers and mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs), in terms of advantageous physicochemical properties, attractive texture properties, ease of characterization, and abundant surface chemistry for functionalization and other advantages, MOFs still suffer from several problems, such as poor degradability, which could lead to the risk of biocompatibility caused by accumulation. In this chapter, we intend to concentrate briefly on various biobased magnetic MOF nanocomposites and their physicochemical properties, taking into account a series of recently reported interesting studies. Finally, we sum up the perspective applications of these composites.
