Strategy for Development of Modern Protective Equipment Based on Organometallic Complexes with Desired Properties

Abstract

The aim of this review is to analyze the existing approaches to the creation and the improvement of materials and fabrics based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which can be the basis for developing a strategy for creating modular MOF materials for modern personal protective equipment (PPE) against toxic chemicals and pathogenic microorganisms. The review provides the details of the use of biomolecules for integration with MOF by pore encapsulation, surface attachment, covalent binding, in situ encapsulation of biomolecules in MOF, and the creation of bio-MOFs. The characteristics of biomolecules that can be included in MOFs are presented. Certain schemes for the inclusion of some biomolecules in MOFs are given. The main properties of MOFs, the main trends of their creation, as well as the most promising directions of application of biomolecules/MOF composites are discussed. The strategy of the creation of modular MOF materials with desired properties for modern PPE, that provide protection against various hazards of chemical, biological and physical nature, is presented. The main trends of the development of modern PPE based on modular MOF materials with desired properties are given. Particular schemes of the creation of separate modules in MOF structures, as well as the determination of their importance and significance for imparting universal protective properties to MOF materials are proposed