Polymer molecular templates, components and production methods

Molecularly imprinted polymers represent a new class of materials that prepare artificial and have special recognition binding sites to detect templates. Since their discovery in 1972, MIPs have attracted considerable interest from scientists. Three particular features have made MIPs the target of intense investigation: their high affinity and selectivity, which are similar to those of natural receptors; their unique stability which is superior to that demonstrated by natural bimolecular; and the simplicity of their preparation and the ease of adaptation to different practical applications These features caused to use molecularly imprinted polymers for separation application like solid-phase extraction, membrane, biosensors, high liquid chromatography and capillary electro chromatography. In these study ingredients of MIPs, methods for molecule imprinting and polymerization methods for preparing MIPs investigated.