Recent progress of the research of metal-organic frameworks-molecularly imprinted polymers (MOFs-MIPs) in food safety detection field

• Published in: Food chemistry 2024-11, Vol.458, p.140330, Article 140330
• Main Authors: Geng, Lingjun, Huang, Jingcheng, Fang, Mingxuan, Wang, Haifang, Liu, Jingjing, Wang, Guangxian, Hu, Mengjiao, Sun, Jiashuai, Guo, Yemin, Sun, Xia
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Food hazard factors; Food safety detection; Metal-organic frameworks; Molecularly imprinted polymers
• ISSN: 0308-8146; 1873-7072; 1873-7072
• DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.140330

Food safety is an important cornerstone of protecting human health and life. Therefore, it is of great significance to detect possible pollutants in food sensitively and efficiently. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely used in the adsorption and detection of food pollutants. However, traditional MIPs have problems such as uneven loading of the imprinted cavity and slow mass transfer efficiency. While the adsorption of MOFs has low specificity and cannot accurately identify target molecules. Therefore, some researchers have taken advantage of the high specific recognition abilities of MIPs and the large specific surface areas, high porosity and easy functionalization of MOFs to combine MOFs with MIPs, and have achieved a series of important results in the field of food safety detection. This paper reviews the research progress of the application of MOFs-MIPs in the field of food safety detection from 2019 to 2024. It furnishes researchers interested in this domain with a rapid and comprehensive grasp of the latest research status, it also offers them a chance to anticipate future development trends, thereby supporting the continuous advances of MOFs-MIPs in food safety detection. [Display omitted] •Application of MOFs-MIPs in the field of food safety is reviewed for the first time.•Application of MOFs-MIPs in the detection of eight kinds of food pollutants.•MOFs-MIPs have potential applications in food safety detection field.•The key role of each component in MOFs-MIPs.•Challenges and future trends of MOFs-MIPs were discussed.