MOFs are the class of mesoporous crystalline materials, structurally oriented
via self-assembled organic ligands and ions of transitional metal. The MOFs are usually enabled by biocatalysis of drugs and their release. However, the physiological degradation of MOF as well as MOF-mediated composites (like MOF/enzyme, MOF/SiO
2, and MOF/Ag composites) may lead to inhibiting the dissolution rate of some drugs/elements. Therefore, MOF-based derivatives (like metal oxides/carbon NPs, oxides/carbon NPs, nanomaterials from metal/carbon and carbon-based nanomaterials) could be developed to overcome such issues [
33–
40]. The MOFs could be further of several types such as: (1) Isoreticular MOFs: These are microporous octahedral crystalline materials usually synthesized by a series of aromatic carboxylates as well as [Zn
4O]
6+ SBU. It was reported that, the synthetic nanosheets of IRMOF-3 is highly efficient with utmost selectivity/sensitivity for recognizing 2,4,6-trinitrophenol for wastewater management [
41,
42]. (2) Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs): Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks comprised of ZIF-90, ZIF-8, ZIF-71, ZIF-L, ZIF-7, and ZIF-67 [
43]. They contains imidazole derivatives showing valence electrons. They revealed maximum acid sensitivity, lower cytotoxicity, showing greater surface area, and massive pore size [
44]. The MOF- ZIF-8 designed by Pan and co-workers are highly involved in detection of the DNA of HIV-1 [
45]. A substantial pore size along with the marvellous chemo-thermal stability of ZIFs are reflecting a benchmark for development of networks for generating novel MOF composites [
46,
47]. (3) Porous coordination networks (PCNs): PCNs like PCN-224, PCN-222, PCN-333, and PCN-57 are the 3D stereo-octahedron materials, with a surface topology of hole−cage−hole pattern [
43]. Among the above types, PCN-222 MOF has been extensively exploited in designing of electrochemical sensor for DNA detection [
48]. (4) Materials institute lavoisier (MIL) MOFs: MIL-MOFs comprised of MIL-100, MIL-101, MIL-88, MIL-53, and MIL-125 under elemental synthesis revealed valence electrons along with two carboxylic functional groups [
43,
49]. (5) Porous coordination polymers (PCPs): They are the synthesized either by pyridine or by carboxylic acid [
43]. The first 3D network assembly of Prussian blue was synthesized by Ludi
et al. [
50]. Similarly, PCP Zn(NO2-ip)(bpy) was immobilized on QCM surface for sensing the organic vapours [
51] and bio-macromolecular separation [
52,
53]. (6) University of Oslo (UiO) MOFs: The dicarboxylic acid based UiO-MOF such as Zr6 (µ
3-O)4(µ
3-OH) as SBU and PBU was synthesized for the first time by Lillerud
et al. [
54]. UiO-66(Zr) was developed from BDC and ZrCl
4 via solvothermal technique through tetrahedral and octahedral pore cages [
54]. UiO-66 revealed a superb thermodynamic stability at an extreme pH condition (at pH 14) and can successfully be implemented as a super capacitor electrode material [
44]. Meanwhile, numerous MOFs, such as, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POST-n) [
55], Northwestern University (NU) [
56], University of Nottingham (NOTT-n) [
57], Dresden University of Technology (DUT-n family) [
58], Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU-n family) [
59], and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST-n) [
60], have recently emerged [
61] with specifically deployed in several bio assisted approaches [
62]. It has been reported that MOFs like MIL-88, MIL-53, MIL-101 and MIL-100 have revealed superior catalytic efficacy [
40,
63]. MOFs are further modified with metal NPs for exploiting their distinct structure [
22,
64] and metal oxide [
65] leads to an enhanced catalytic response. Natural enzymes entrapped into the networking of MOF-based materials play a pivotal catalytic response at diverse microenvironments with utmost stability [
66,
67] compared to their pristine MOFs. The derivatives of MOF (based on metal oxides and porous carbon materials) can also be developed/synthesized
via etching [
40] and pyrolysis [
68–
74] for mimicking miscellaneous responses [
75–
77]. Despite the synthetic inorganic versions, MOFs could also be existing as MOF nanosheets and polyhedral MOFs with altered shapes and sizes [
78]. The MOFs are also explored for the detection of several bio elements such as glutathione (GSH) [
79] and glucose [
80]. However, microenvironments such as temperature, pH and the concentration of H
2O
2 along with several stimuli for example ultrasound, magnetic fields, light and, heat leads to impact the catalytic efficacy of MOF-modulated NZ [
81–
89].