Metal Organic Frameworks: A New Generation Coordination Polymers for Visible Light Photocatalysis

Abstract

Abstract The twin associates, pollution and energy are the bottleneck for the sustainable development of present and future. Visible light driven nanomaterials have emerged as sustainable and eco‐friendly outlook to address these burning issues. Metal‐organic frameworks [MOFs] that was widely considered for gas storage and separations, notably for hydrogen have overlooked the conventional light driven nanomaterials owing to their excellence in materials characteristics; enormous surface area, analogous reactive sites and tuneable functionality. They soared slowly and gained interest as visible light photo catalyst, for driving the photocatalysis and can perform versatile reactions like elimination of aquatic organics, general organic synthesis, water split for hydrogen production, CO 2 reduction and etc. Owing to their demand, we articulated the present review on MOFs as light driven nanomaterial that comprises of its evolution, synthesis, structure, functionality, application, and its future.