“…Compared with biological receptors, molecularly imprinted materials possess many advantages such as ease of mass production, high stability, and easily adapted for different compounds with specific binding sites. Therefore, molecularly imprinted materials have been extensively used in chromatographic separation (Qin et al, 2009), solid phase extraction (Fan et al, 2009), catalysis (Lettau et al, 2006), binding assays (Stephenson and Shimizu, 2007) and molecular sensing (Fang et al, 2009;Lakshmi et al, 2009;Li et al, 2005;Mazzotta et al, 2008).…”