Metal–Organic Framework for Antibiotic Sensing Application

Abstract

Due to the harmful environmental threat posed by antibiotics, there has been a significant increase in research interest in developing appropriate chemo-sensors for specific quantification and detection of antibiotics. Creating proper sensors is required because the excessive buildup of antibiotics inside the soil, caused by high human consumption and animal activity, might harm biological systems. Among the several sensing methodologies, the fluorescence-based technique has emerged as an alternative and efficient way to identify antibiotics. Numerous fluorescence sensors have been developed for the discriminative detection of antibiotics in solution and vapor phases. Recently, it has been observed that a novel category of hybrid materials, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), is a promising material for the selective and sensitive detection of antibiotics. The MOF comprises metal ions (metal node or secondary building unit) with precisely articulated organic ligands. It possesses excellent qualitative structural features such as various topology, flexibility, highly stable porosity, and automatically located functional sites, which bestow them to perform as an efficient luminescent sensor. In this book chapter, we have methodically summarized the current developments using luminescent MOFs as fluorescence sensors for the discriminative detection of various antibiotics. Finally, this chapter describes this conclusive remark of this chapter.