Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) Materials for Separation, Purification and Sensing
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2022) | Viewed by 13151
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1970s, when the molecular imprinting technique (MIT) was developed to create selective recognition sites in synthetic polymers, the past decades have seen a birth–growth–prosperity period for this technique. With tailor-made binding sites that are complementary to template molecules in size, shape, and functional groups, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are considered a class of ‘artificial antibodies’ to recognize desired targets with good specificity. Various advanced imprinting techniques have been explored to fabricate smart MIPs with desired performance. With the features of structure predictability, recognition specificity, and application universality, MIPs have found extensive use in separation, purification, sensing, catalysis, biomedicine, and so on. In spite of these advances, some recognized challenges exist, which require further efforts from multidisciplinary areas to push MIT and MIPs to another boom period. In this Special Issue entitled ‘Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) Materials for Separation, Purification, and Sensing’, Polymers aims to report original articles that present the latest progress in the design, fabrication, characterization, and property exploration of MIP materials and their applications in separation, purification, and analytical detection. Critical reviews that reflect current hotspots, new challenges, and future perspectives of MIT and MIP materials are particularly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Jianming Pan
Prof. Dr. Xiangheng Niu
Prof. Dr. Zhong Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molecularly imprinted polymers
- molecular imprinting technique
- separation
- purification
- sensing
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