“…However, the MIPs are versatile robust polymers, which can be easily tailored for fast, selective separations. The imprinting technique was primarily introduced to improve selectivity in the chromatographic separations, but nowadays, the technique finds immense use in several toxic remediations such as heavy metal ion such as Cu(II), Hg(II), Pb(II), etc., or anions such as phosphate extraction from waste water by preparing their corresponding MIPs. − The MIPs can be used for recognition of not only metal ions (commonly called as ion imprinted polymers (IIPs)) but also for biological molecules such as proteins, amino acids, etc., , as sensors ,, and in drug delivery. , The selective recognition sites in MIPs/IIPs are based on the size, structure, and functional groups of the analyte of interest. The first step for MIP/IIPs synthesis requires bulk complex formation of the target analyte with the appropriate functional monomers, commonly referred to as the target specific template.…”