**Author details**

Eram Sharmin<sup>1</sup> and Fahmina Zafar2\*

\*Address all correspondence to: fahmzafar@gmail.com

1 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al‐Qura University, Makkah Al‐Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia

2 Inorganic Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

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**Acknowledgements**

**Author details**

Eram Sharmin<sup>1</sup>

New Delhi, India

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MOFs find versatile applications as drug‐delivery agents, sensors, storage and separation systems, catalysts, and others. Nontoxic nano‐MOFs bearing tailored cores and surfaces can be used as nanodrug carriers for antitumor and anti‐HIV drugs (biomedicine, nontoxic, drug). MOFs with biomolecules as organic linkers are still in cradle stage in contrast to their counterparts bearing traditional organic linkers. However, biomolecules confer biological compatibility and easy recyclability to MOFs. They also confer unique characteristics such as chirality and specific recognition, self‐assembly characteristic, separation, ion exchange, and catalytic properties, also rendering bioinspired structures. In future, a better understanding and control of chemistry and design of MOFs may provide plethora of opportunities to‐

Dr Fahmina Zafar is thankful to UGC (New Delhi, India) for Dr DS Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ref. # F.4/2006(BSR)/13‐986/2013(BSR). The author is also thankful to Prof. Nahid Nishat (Mentor), Inorganic Materials Research Lab, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia

1 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al‐Qura University,

2 Inorganic Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia,

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