Removal and destruction of endocrine disrupting contaminants by adsorption with molecularly imprinted polymers followed by simultaneous extraction and phototreatment

Molecular imprinting for removing highly toxic organic pollutants

“…A possible strategy is that removal and destruction of the contaminants by adsorption with MIPs followed by simultaneous extraction and chemical treatment. 106 (2) Development of water-compatible MIPs, which is a critical factor in the newly reported biodegradation of trace target pollutants by using MIPs. (3) Promoting the stability and duration of MIPs in highly reactive environments.…”

Efficiency of a molecularly imprinted polymer for selective removal of phenols and phenoxyacids from contaminated waters

“…For example, a MIP was used for the selective removal of single contaminants, such as 17b-estradiol at trace concentration (Ko1 et al 2011;Le Noir et al 2007), diclofenac from contaminated water (Dai et al 2011), perfluorooctane sulfonate from aqueous solution (Yu et al 2008), 2,4-dichlorophenol from contaminated water (Li et al 2009b), 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid from water (Han et al 2010) and nonylphenol from aqueous solution (Pan et al 2013). MIPs also have been used for the selective removal of several contaminants of the same family, such as phenolic estrogens from different water sources (Lin et al 2008), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from contaminated water (Krupadam et al 2010), endocrine-disrupting contaminants from aqueous effluents (Fernández-Á lvarez et al 2009), estrogenic compounds and water-soluble acid dyes from a water environment (Zhang and Hu 2008;Luo et al 2011) and more recently, fluoroquinolone antibiotics from aqueous solution (Tan et al 2013). Liu et al (2014) have used a double-template MIP on the surface of carbon microspheres for the selective removal of benzothiophene and dibenzothiophene from gasoline.…”

Construction of uniformly sized pseudo template imprinted polymers coupled with HPLC–UV for the selective extraction and determination of trace estrogens in chicken tissue samples

“…Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have prearranged structure and specific molecular recognition ability [21]. In the last few years, MIPs were widely used for the selective enrichment and pretreatment of target compounds existing in complex matrix [21][22][23][24]. However, the MIPs synthesized by traditional methods exhibit poor site accessibility to the target molecules due to the functionality are totally embedded by high cross-linking density in the polymer matrices [25].…”