23Chen et al. fabricated and successfully utilized MIP-coated QDs for cyphenothrin detection in river water. 24 However, in these methods the value of fluorescence they collected were all by fluorescence spectrophotometry, which only supplies the fluorescence information of samples illuminated by the light source of the instrument. In addition, the polymers of each sample could not keep the same dispersion state, which resulted in inaccuracies in the detected fluorescence data. So a more effective method was needed.As a new analytical technique, cytometric bead array (CBA) has achieved real-time and rapid detection of targeted 2017 © The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry † To whom correspondence should be addressed. In this paper, quantum dot (QD)-based molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) was fabricated and successfully utilized as a fluorescent probe for highly selective and sensitive detection of carbofuran in water samples. The MIPs were synthesized followed by a multi-step swelling and polymerization method, and then labeled with CdSe/ZnS QDs via gradual solvent evaporation. Then the prepared QDs-MIP microspheres were introduced to flow cytometry by virtue of their good dispersibility in water, and fast adsorption and desorption. Under optimized conditions, the fluorescence intensity of QDs-MIP decreased linearly with the increasing of carbofuran in the concentration range of 1 -20 μg L -1 (R 2 > 0.99) and it can detect down to 0.2 μg L -1 of carbofuran. This method was simple, selective and applied successfully to the optosensing of trace carbofuran in water samples with good recoveries ranging from 94.1 ± 3.7 to 98.4 ± 4.5%.