Background & Aims: Magnetically molecularly imprinted polymers (MMIPs) are assumed as kind of sorbent polymers ‎which can separate or determine bioactive compounds from environment fast and specifically.  ‎Magnetic properties, stability at various conditions (temperature , ionic strength and pH) and selective ‎function are among the advantages of these polymers in determin...

We report the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging of a hydrogel-based molecularly imprinted polymer (HydroMIP) specific to the template molecule bovine haemoglobin (BHb). A novel critical point drying based sample preparation technique was employed to prepare the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) samples in a manner that would facilitate the use of TEM to image the imprinted caviti...

Aspects of the molecular-level basis for the function of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate and trimethylolproprane trimethacrylate crosslinked methacrylic acid copolymers molecularly imprinted with (S)-propranolol have been studied using a series of all-component and all-atom molecular dynamics studies of the corresponding prepolymerization systems. The crosslinking agents were observed to contrib...

Molecularly imprinted polymers were prepared and tested in different ways. 1-Methyl-2-piperidinoethylester of 4-decyloxyphenylcarbamic acid was used as the template for imprints formation. Acrylamide, 4-vinylpyridine, and methacrylic acid as monomers and methanol and acetonitrile as a porogene were used. Non-imprinted polymers were prepared for each imprinted polymer by the same procedure. Poly...

Chitosan is widely used in molecular imprinting technology (MIT) as a functional monomer or supporting matrix because of its low cost and high contents of amino and hydroxyl functional groups. The various excellent properties of chitosan, which include nontoxicity, biodegradability, biocompatibility, and attractive physical and mechanical performances, make chitosan a promising alternative to c...

Solid phase extraction is one of the major applications of molecularly imprinted polymers fields for clean-up of environmental and biological samples namely molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction. In this study, solid phase extraction using the imprinted polymer has been optimized with the experimental design approach for a triazine herbicide, named atrazine with regard to the critical fa...

Title of dissertation: MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMERS FOR THE SELECTIVE RECOGNITION OF PROTEINS Daniel S. Janiak, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Peter Kofinas Fischell Department of Bioengineering Molecular imprinting is a technique used to synthesize polymers that display selective recognition for a given template molecule of interest. In this study, the role of...

A new approach is proposed for the synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) (synthetic antibodies) as soluble nanogels with sizes close to the size of real antibodies. To imprint a molecular memory in particles consisting of only a few polymer chains, an initiator carrying multiple iniferter moieties is used. This allows for the simultaneous initiation of several polymer chains, and y...