“…Materials generated by this technique present high chemical resistance, thermal stability, good mechanical properties and reusability [23]. Hence, considering the advantages of MI, many scientists have been using this technique to develop various advanced materials [24][25][26], such as membranes [27,28], beads [29], particles [30,31], micro-and nano-gels [32,33] or thin films [34,35], to be utilized as separation tools [36], catalysts [37] or sensors and biosensors [38] for metal recovery [39,40], drug delivery [41] and ternary mixture separation [42]. In this context, some authors have already reported the use of MI for developing TNT-MIPs using surface imprinting of silica nanoparticles [43] and nanotubes [44] or bulk imprinting of films [16,27].…”