Nanomaterials and metal-organic frameworks for biosensing applications of mutations of the emerging viruses

The world today lives in a state of terrible fear due to the mutation of the emerging COVID-19. With the continuation of this pandemic, there is an urgent need for fast, accurate testing devices to detect the emerging SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in terms of biosensors and point-of-care testing. Besides, the urgent development in personal defense tools, anti-viral surfaces and wearables, and smartphones open the door for simplifying the self-diagnosis process everywhere. This review introduces a quick COVID-19 overview: definition, transmission, pathophysiology, the identification and diagnosis, mutation and transformation, and the global situation. It also focuses on an overview of the rapidly advanced technologies based on nanomaterials and MOFs for biosensing, diagnosing, and viral control of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Finally, highlight the latest technologies, applications, existing achievements, and preventive diagnostic strategies to control this epidemic and combat the emerging coronavirus. This humble effort aims to provide a helpful survey that can be used to develop a creative solution and to lay down the future vision of diagnosis against COVID-19. This review highlights COVID-19 and rapid developments in advanced nanotechnologies based on nanomaterials and metal-organic frameworks, the latest technologies, applications, existing achievements, and preventive diagnostic strategies to control this epidemic and combat the emerging coronavirus. The evaluation of existing achievements for pandemic management and suggested creative solutions in dealing with this outbreak and lay down the future vision of diagnosis to protect ourselves from a new mutation. [Display omitted] •SARS-CoV-2: Quick overview and global situation.•Nanotechnology, nanomaterial, and nanomaterial-based MOFs: Quick overview.•Role of nanomaterial and MOFs in COVID-19 diagnosis and viral infection control.•Future of biosensors, PDT, anti-viral surfaces, wearables, and smartphones against COVID-19.•Evaluation of existing achievements for pandemic management and suggested solutions.