Coordination polymers in adsorptive remediation of environmental contaminants

Above the permissible critical concentration of a contaminant present in air, water, and soil adversely affect human health. Industrial, agricultural, health-care and energy-related activities are regularly contributing to increase chemical, biological, or radiological environmental contaminants in our surroundings to cause global concerns. The coordination polymers have prospects for adsorptive remediation of contamination by self or as composites through diverse compositions and functionalities to provide solution for global environment issues dealing from microscopic level to bulk level. There are large numbers of mechanisms for binding and adsorbing contaminants by the coordination polymers, which makes a larger domain to study and also add up scopes to utilise them in different forms in remediation of contaminants. Dimension, functional groups, active sites of porous coordination polymers contribute to the efficient adsorptions of contaminants in the presence or absence of stimuli. The roles of coordination polymers in generating new generation of composites, nanozymes, electrodes, membranes are discussed. Foundation for the adsorptive remedial processes by coordination polymers is presented. The necessity of bio-degradable environmentally benign coordination polymers in contaminant remediation is discussed.