Diagnostic tools alternative techniques

More recently, the area of MOF research has shown promises in a variety of other applications, including sensing [9], delivery devices [13], diagnostic tools [13,14], microelectronics [15,16], pollutant sequestration [17-19], and energy production devices [20,21]. Despite the versatility of the synthetic technique, the need to obey the coordination chemistry rules might place limitations to the required functional properties [3]. To this regard, several alternative approaches have been developed to overcome the limitation allowing the incorporation of new functionalities in MOFs [7,22-25]. 

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