“…MOFs with advantages of large specific surface area, high porosity, fluorescence quenching, high loading efficiency, easy functionalization, and tunable pore size ( Agostoni et al, 2015 ; Li et al, 1999 ; Rowsell and Yaghi, 2004 ) have gained considerable attention in many aspects, such as adsorption ( Ghanbari et al, 2020 ), separation ( Tang and Tanase, 2020 ), catalysis ( Li et al, 2019a ), energy storage ( Li et al, 2020a ), biosensing and bioimaging ( Carrasco, 2018 ; Li et al, 2020b ; Wang, 2017 ; Yang et al, 2019a ), drug delivery ( He et al, 2019b ; Wang et al, 2020a , Wang et al, 2020b ; Wu and Yang, 2017 ; Yang et al, 2018 ; Zhang et al, 2020a ; Zhong et al, 2019 ), cancer immunotherapy ( Zhong et al, 2019 ; Zhong and Sun, 2020 ), etc. Among them, biosensing is a promising direction with the following advantages: (1) large specific surface areas and high porosity for probe adsorption and fluorescence quenching ( Luo et al, 2020b ); (2) adjustable pores with particular shape and sizes via building blocks with different lengths ( Deng et al, 2012 ); (3) the selectivity enabled by the specific pore size allowing small molecules enter while excluding large molecules ( Guo et al, 2015 ); (4) the abundant functional groups and positively charged metal ions provide various interactions, such as electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, and π-π stacking for adsorption of fluorophore-labeled probes ( Zhang et al, 2014a ); ( Fig. 1 ) (5) the reduced background fluorescence signals and enhanced sensitivities by MOFs ( Fang et al, 2014 ; Qin et al, 2016 ).…”