Review on molecular imprinting technology and its application in pre-treatment and detection of marine organic pollutants

Remediation of pharmaceuticals from contaminated water by molecularly imprinted polymers: a review

“…Molecularly imprinted polymers, newer kinds of tailor-made materials with strong molecular recognition ability, are obtained by a copolymerization process following a self-assembly step between the cross-linkers and functional monomers in the appropriate solvent with the presence of the template molecule (Liu et al 2021b ). Molecularly imprinted polymers exhibit unique characteristic features such as specific target recognition, structural predictability, and practicability, which collectively ensure their broad applications in various fields, including chemical sensing, drug delivery, artificial antibodies, biotechnology, separation science, and water treatment (Li and Yang 2021 ).…”

“…The non-covalent-based molecularly imprinted polymers are more flexible in the selection of templates and monomers and are easier to prepare. Furthermore, this imprinting type is universal due to the more favorable rebinding kinetics, simplicity in the removal of templates, and broad applications (Liu et al 2021b ).…”

“…Among them, antibiotics are considered as a new class of environmental pollutants, which can cause potential damage to ecosystem survival since continuous exposure leads to the development of bacterial resistance to existing antibiotics (Yang et al 2018 ; Hu et al 2021a , b ). The removal of antibiotics by molecularly imprinted polymers has received a lot of research interest due to the difficulty of the former being biodegraded and their strong durability (Liu et al 2021b ; Zhao et al 2021 ; Li and Yang 2021 ).…”

Recent Trends in the Development of Carbon-Based Electrodes Modified with Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Antibiotic Electroanalysis

“…MIPs are mechanically and chemically stable even at extreme pH and temperature values and, therefore, suitable for MIP-based sensors preparation even if they are single-use or multi-use [73,74]. Owing to these advantages, MIPs found applications in catalysis [75], immunoassays [30], separation [76] and sensing [77][78][79] procedures, in the pharmaceutical and medical fields [68,70,74,80], as well as in food [81,82] and environmental monitoring and control [68,70,80,83,84].…”

Determination of organophosphorus in dairy products by graphitic carbon nitride combined molecularly imprinted microspheres with ultra performance liquid chromatography

“…It simulates the specific binding of antigens and antibodies in organisms, prepares the polymers that match with a specific target compound in spatial configuration. The prepared polymers are called molecular imprinting polymers (MIP) or molecularly imprinted microsphere (MIM) ( He et al, 2021 , Liu et al, 2021 ). With excellent recognition ability, MIM or MIP can directly adsorb target analytes and minimize background interference.…”