“…The first step was the identification of suitable materials and technologies to realize this specific device. The selected material was poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) (EVAL) because it has already demonstrated high hemocompatibility (10), suitability for dialyzer production (11, 12) and ability to recognize, through a molecular-imprinting approach, protein molecules such as albumin and amylase (13, 14). Concerning the technology used for the creation of membranes, our efforts were directed toward a combination of phase inversion and molecular-imprinting techniques (15).…”