Photocatalytic Potential of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Pollutant Degradation: A Literature Review

Photocatalysis is one of the alternatives for wastewater treatment. The photocatalytic performance of MOFs degrading dyes and other pollutants are compared in this review. Most MOFs exhibit great degradation activity, even reaching 100% dyes successfully degraded while using MIL-125(Ti) and UiO-66-NH_2@CNT types of MOFs. Factors such as pH, catalyst concentration, lighting conditions, the structure of materials, stability, and reusability, as well as techniques for characterizing MOF degradation pathways and limitation of MOFs for photodegradation, are also discussed.