Technical Challenges of Molecular-Imprinting-Based Optical Sensors for Environmental Pollutants

Combating environmental pollution constantly requires new affinity tools to selectively recognize and sensitively detect them. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are plastic antibodies that have exhibited great potential as recognition units in optical sensing platforms to monitor wide varieties...

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Publié dans:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1985. - 38(2022), 19 vom: 17. Mai, Seite 5963-5967
Auteur principal: Arabi, Maryam (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Chen, Lingxin
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2022
Accès à la collection:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Sujets:Journal Article Review Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Environmental Pollutants Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
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Résumé:Combating environmental pollution constantly requires new affinity tools to selectively recognize and sensitively detect them. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are plastic antibodies that have exhibited great potential as recognition units in optical sensing platforms to monitor wide varieties of environmental pollutants, including ionic species, organic compounds, gases, and even manufactured nanoparticles. The construction, sensing strategies, and applications of molecular-imprinting-based optical sensors (MI-OSs) have been discussed in recent reviews, thus we deliberately set them aside. This Perspective elaborates on unanswered questions and main approaches being taken to address the challenges of MI-OS technologies, which have been less considered until now. Specifically, we highlight obscure technical aspects of MI-OS fabrication and validation that impact their practical applications and importantly offer conceivable solutions to related problems to bridge the research gap
Description:Date Completed 19.05.2022
Date Revised 20.07.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827
DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00935