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A review on metal organic frameworks (MOFs) modified membrane for remediation of water pollution

This review covers how metal-organic framework (MOF) materials can be incorporated into membranes to improve filtration of pollutants from contaminated water. The technology shows promise for removing microplastics and chemical contaminants, though most applications remain at laboratory scale.

2020 Environmental Engineering Research 27 citations
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Recent Developments in Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Water Purification: A Mini Review

This mini-review examines recent advances in using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for water purification, covering applications targeting heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, microplastics, dyes, and radionuclides. The authors highlight the versatile adsorption and degradation properties of MOFs and identify current limitations including stability and scalability that need to be addressed for practical water treatment deployment.

2024 ChemistrySelect 9 citations
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Recent Advances in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based Composites for Organic Effluent Remediation

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks, a class of highly porous engineered materials, are being developed to clean up organic pollutants from industrial wastewater. Researchers found these materials show strong potential for treating contamination from chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, and agricultural sources due to their high surface area and customizable surface chemistry.

2024 Materials 31 citations
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Current Trend of MOFs Incorporated Membranes for Advanced Wastewater Treatment

This review covers the use of metal-organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles incorporated into membrane filters to improve wastewater treatment performance, including better rejection of persistent pollutants. Advanced membrane technologies incorporating nanomaterials also show potential for removing microplastics from water, making this treatment research broadly relevant.

2023 ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering 1 citations
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Synthesis, characterization, and activation of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for the removal of emerging organic contaminants through the adsorption-oriented process: A review

This review examines metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of advanced materials, for removing emerging contaminants from water, including microplastics, dyes, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. MOFs have extremely high surface areas and can be chemically tuned to target specific pollutants, making them promising for next-generation water treatment. The technology could help reduce human exposure to microplastics and other harmful substances in drinking water.

2023 Results in Chemistry 60 citations
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Metal-organic framework membrane for waterborne micro/nanoplastics treatment

Researchers reviewed the potential of metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes — materials with highly tunable pore structures — to filter micro- and nanoplastics from water more effectively than conventional filtration. MOF membranes showed promise due to their adjustable surface chemistry and resistance to biological fouling, though challenges like particle clumping and structural stability still need to be resolved.

2023 Chemical Engineering Journal 60 citations
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Efficiency ofMOFs in Water Treatment Against the Emerging Water Contaminants Such as Endocrine Disruptors, Pharmaceuticals, Microplastics, Pesticides, and Other Contaminants

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can remove a broad range of emerging water contaminants — including microplastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors — from water. MOFs outperform conventional treatment methods because of their large surface area, tunable pore structure, and ability to work through both adsorption and photocatalysis. The paper highlights MOFs as a promising next-generation water treatment technology that could meaningfully reduce human and environmental exposure to microplastics and co-occurring pollutants.

2023 1 citations
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The Application of Metal–Organic Frameworks in Water Treatment and Their Large-Scale Preparation: A Review

This review examines metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), highly porous materials being developed for water treatment that can remove pollutants including microplastics through filtration and catalytic breakdown. MOFs have exceptional surface area and can be tailored to target specific contaminants, making them promising for advanced water purification. The challenge remains scaling up MOF production for real-world water treatment use, which could help reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.

2024 Materials 19 citations
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MIL Series in MOFs for the Removal of Emerging Contaminants: Application and Mechanisms

This review examined MIL-series metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as adsorbents for removing emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals from water. MIL-MOFs showed high surface area and tunable chemistry that enable effective contaminant capture, and the review assessed their stability and scalability for practical water treatment applications.

2025 Inorganics
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Optimized Polymeric Membranes for Water Treatment: Fabrication, Morphology, and Performance

This review examines advances in polymer membrane design for water purification, focusing on how chemical functionalization and fabrication methods determine membrane performance. Researchers highlight promising developments incorporating metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, and graphene into polymer membranes for selectively removing toxic metals and chemicals. The study emphasizes that choosing the right polymer chemistry and morphology is critical for developing efficient water treatment systems.

2024 Polymers 16 citations
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Function-led design of porous organic materials for water treatment

This review covers porous organic polymers (POPs) as advanced adsorbent materials for removing pollutants from water, including dyes, heavy metals, and microplastics. Their tunable pore structure and high surface area make them promising candidates for next-generation water treatment technologies.

2023 IWA Publishing eBooks
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Retracted: Synthesis characterization of Zn-based MOF and their application in degradation of water contaminants

This review examines zinc-based metal-organic frameworks (Zn-MOFs) as photocatalysts for degrading organic pollutants such as dyes in wastewater, reporting over 90% degradation efficiency and good reusability, highlighting their potential as high-surface-area nanomaterials for water treatment.

2022 Water Science & Technology 20 citations
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Azo‐Functionalized Zr‐MOF and Its Mixed Matrix Membrane for High‐Capacity Adsorption of Organic Dyes in Water

This paper describes a zirconium-based metal-organic framework (MOF) membrane that achieves highly efficient removal of toxic organic dyes from wastewater within 10 minutes. This paper is not about microplastics; it addresses dye wastewater remediation using adsorption chemistry without connection to plastic particle contamination.

2026 Chemistry - An Asian Journal
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A Critical Review on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Composites as Advanced Materials for Adsorption and Photocatalytic Degradation of Emerging Organic Pollutants from Wastewater

This review evaluates the use of metal-organic frameworks and their composites for removing emerging organic pollutants from wastewater through adsorption and photocatalytic degradation. Researchers found that these advanced materials show high efficiency in capturing and breaking down endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other persistent contaminants. The study highlights the promise of metal-organic frameworks as a next-generation remediation technology for addressing water pollution.

2020 Polymers 194 citations
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Microplastics and dye removal from textile wastewater using MIL-53 (Fe) metal-organic framework-based ultrafiltration membranes

Researchers developed an advanced ultrafiltration membrane using a metal-organic framework material to simultaneously remove microplastics and dyes from textile wastewater. The modified membrane showed improved pollutant rejection rates and better resistance to fouling compared to conventional membranes. The study demonstrates a promising approach for tackling multiple contaminants in one of the most polluting industrial wastewater streams.

2024 Chemosphere 32 citations
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A Symmetry Concept for the Self-Assembly Synthesis of Mn-MIL-100 Using a Capping Agent and Its Adsorption Performance with Methylene Blue

Researchers synthesized a metal-organic framework material capable of adsorbing the dye methylene blue from water. Adsorptive materials like this could potentially also capture microplastics and plastic-associated dyes from wastewater before they reach aquatic ecosystems.

2023 Symmetry 1 citations
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Linker functionalised phosphinate metal-organic frameworks: Adsorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants

Researchers developed new phosphinate-based metal-organic frameworks as adsorbents to remove emerging contaminants from water. These materials showed improved stability in aqueous environments compared to conventional metal-organic frameworks, making them more practical for water treatment applications.

2023 1 citations
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Microplastics removal from aqueous environment by metal organic frameworks

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of advanced porous materials, can remove 70-99.9% of microplastics from water in laboratory settings. MOFs can be customized with specific pore sizes and chemical properties to target different types of microplastics. While challenges remain with cost and scaling up, this technology shows promise for developing more effective water treatment systems to reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.

2023 BMC Chemistry 50 citations
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Double-Modified Composite Membranes with Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Nanoplastics Removal: Insights from Density Functional Theory Modeling

Researchers developed a dual-modified composite membrane combining hydrogen-bonded organic framework and metal-organic framework nanoparticles, achieving both high water permeability and strong rejection of nanoplastic particles, outperforming single-modification membranes in water treatment performance.

2025 ACS ES&T Water 2 citations
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Application of metal-organic frameworks for photocatalytic degradation of microplastics: Design, challenges, and scope

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks can be designed and applied for photocatalytic degradation of microplastics in wastewater, addressing the challenge of microplastic hydrophobicity and their resistance to conventional treatment. The authors discuss design strategies, current performance limitations, and future directions for scaling photocatalytic MOF technology to practical remediation applications.

2024 Chemosphere 5 citations