Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Sensing Platforms: Recent Advances in Chemo-/Bio-/Environmental Analyses

Dear Colleagues,

Molecular recognition plays an important role in numerous living systems. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), as tailor-made recognition materials, can mimic biological receptors. Chemosensors based on MIPs can overcome the current limitations of traditional detection approaches and offer great potential for durability, chemical stability, low cost and low detection limits using smart miniaturized equipment. MIPs are being prepared via common polymer synthesis routes in which template-assisted polymerization approaches are followed. The presence of the template, the molecule of interest, results in specific cavities that are utilized for its biorecognition, similarly to enzyme–substrate, antibody–antigen, and key–lock interactions. Due to the inherent properties of MIP sensing platforms, the number of articles has increased exponentially; we focus our efforts on compiling recent studies into a single, useful, comprehensive, and interesting Special Issue. In this Special Issue, the recent advances and progress in the utilization of MIPs as biorecognition elements in sensing platforms will be summarized in a completely updated issue, and new approaches will be shared with the researchers working in the related subjects. Both review articles and original research papers are welcome, including but not limited to the following areas:

• Strategies for MIP integration onto sensing platforms;
• MIP-based nanosensors (nanofilms, nanoparticles, and nanocomposites);
• MIP-based composites as flow-through sensing elements for the online preconcentration–detection of analytes;
• MIPs for sensing small molecules in environmental samples;
• MIPs for biomarker detection;
• MIPs for monitoring treatment online;
• Stimulus-responsive MIPs for chemosensors.

Dr. Najmeh Karimian
Dr. Mohsen Golabi
Prof. Dr. Lokman Uzun
Guest Editors

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• molecular recognition
• molecularly imprinted polymers
• chemosensor
• sensing platform
• online monitoring
• chemo-/bio-/environmental analyses