Thin imprinting shell over functionalized magnetic nanoparticles is an effective solution to weaken mass transfer resistance, achieve high binding capacity, and attain rapid separation. In this work, a simple, green, and resultful approach was developed to imprint bovine serum albumin (BSA) on the surface of amino-modified Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles (Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 ) using dopamine as monomer through a two-step immobilized template strategy. The results of X-ray diffraction and vibrating sample magnetometer indicated that the as-synthesized nanomaterials exhibited high crystallinity and satisfactory superparamagnetic properties. Transmission electronic microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy of the products showed that polydopamine shells successfully attached onto Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 . The polydopamine shells with a thickness of about 10 nm enables the template recognition sites to be accessed easily, and exhibits fast kinetics and high adsorption capacity in aqueous solution. Meanwhile, a excellent selectivity towards BSA had been presented when employed bovine hemoglobin (BHb), transferrin, and immunoglobulin G (Ig G) as competitive proteins. Good recovery after a reasonably mild elution and successful capture of the target protein from a real sample of bovine blood suggested its potential value in practical applications. In addition, the resultant polymers were stable and had no obvious deterioration after at least six adsorption-regeneration cycles. The versatility of the proposed method had also been verified by choosing four other proteins with different isoelectric points as the templates. of adsorption were measured by using a UV-2450 spectrophotometer (Shimadzu, Japan). Electrophoretic analysis of protein samples was performed using regular SDS-PAGE (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) with 10% running and 5% stacking gels.Proteins were stained with Coomasie Brilliant Blue R-250. @NIPs were incubated in 10 mL of Tris-HCl (10 mM, pH = 7.0) solution of BSA, BHb, Hb, RNase A, and Lyz at a concentration of 0.30 mg mL -1 respectively at room temperature for 20 min. (n = 5)