Special Issue "Molecular Recognition and Sensors, Including Molecular Imprinting"

Managing Editor
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Website: http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Interests: molecular recognition; entropy; Gibbs paradox; irreversibility; stability; symmetry; similarity; diversity; diversity preservation; evolution; information theory; thermodynamics; enzyme inhibitors; heterocycles; isotopically-labeled compounds; Lewis acids and bases; quninoxaline N-oxides; photochemistry ESR; aromaticity; protein folding; nature of chemical processes

Molecular Recognition and Sensors, Including Molecular Imprinting

• Molecular complementarity and complementarity rule: host and guest interaction, hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, electrostatic effects; receptor-ligand, antigen-antibody, DNA-protein, sugar-lectin, RNA-ribosome; ‘key–lock’ interactions
• Molecular similarity and similarity rule: hydrophobic forces, pi-pi interactions, etc.
• Supramolecular systems; imprinted polymers; chemoenzymatic systems; molecular biomimetics; DNA-based nanodevices; aptamers; molecular beacons; antigens; synthetic ion channels and pores; nanopores and nanotubes; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; supramolecular assemblies; metal-dye complexes; high-affinity chelators; self-assembled monolayers; cavitands including cyclodextrins, calixarenes and cucurbiturils; artificial receptors
• Chiral discrimination and enantioselectivity; selective recognition of anions, cations and small molecules, etc.