The field of tailored frameworks for water treatment has experienced a significant growth in the past decade. Technological consequences like preparing new materials and models with custom-tuned properties or producing these materials in a reproducible way with high yield to function under unsophisticated operating conditions, is intrinsically involved in the exploration of these technologies. The concept of "Dynamic Technologies" emphasises on state of the art technologies, dedicated and specially architected for treatment and desalination of water. A number of dynamic technologies are being explored to make this need for unceasing water supply a phenomenon. With water scarcity hitting every single continent and almost 40% of the total world population, it has become imperative to design systems with maximum efficiency for decontamination of wastewater, for its reuse. This review aims to cover current experimental studies in the field of biotemplating materials synthesis and their characterization, focusing on their application in heterogeneous catalysis. In the latter case, bio-inspired materials can be applied as catalysts requiring different types of active sites (i.e., redox, acidic, basic sites, or a combination of them) to a wide range of processes, including conventional thermal catalysis, photocatalysis, or electrocatalysis, among others. The field of application of these materials is very wide, covering nanomedicine, energy capture and storage, sensors, biocompatible materials, adsorbents, and catalysis. This way, natural evolution through millions of years can provide us with new synthetic pathways to develop some novel functional materials with advantageous properties, such as sophistication, miniaturization, hybridization, hierarchical organization, resistance, and adaptability to the required need. This approach offers the main advantage of allowing morphological control of the product, as a template with the desired morphology can be pre-determined, as long as it is found in nature. Biotemplating involves the transfer of biological structures to inorganic materials through artificial mineralization processes. In the last few years, researchers have focused their attention on the synthesis of new catalyst structures based on or inspired by nature.
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