**7. Conclusion**

This chapter gives a general perspective regarding the use of metal–organic frameworks as drug carriers, in terms of their composition, structure, synthesis, procedures to incorporate drugs and characterization techniques. MOFs are highly porous frameworks with large surface area, made up of repeating units, and generally synthesized by solvothermal and non-solvothermal methods. Therapeutic agents and drugs can be encapsulated, post synthetically attached on the surface, or directly incorporated into the framework. Apart from these compounds, functional biomolecules can also be incorporated with MOFs for the possible treatment of various diseases and therapies. Due to their distinct physicochemical properties, MOFs and NMOFs are gaining prominence for various applications. MOFs have already established themselves as efficient systems for gas storage and separation. Their use as potential drug carriers is relatively new. The available work done by researchers around the world for utilizing these porous frameworks as carriers for drugs will help in synthesizing and designing MOF-drug composites in the future, that can successfully be used for real-world applications.
