Challenges in Molecularly Imprinted Materials
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 1439
Special Issue Editor
Interests: molecularly imprinted polymers; molecular modeling; magnetic imprinted material; material characterization; molecularly imprinted sensors; molecularly imprinted nanoparticles; molecularly imprinted drug delivery systems; core-shell imprinted material
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular-imprinting technology is engaged in searching for advanced selective materials with great potential for environmental, food, or biomedical analyses due to their valuable properties, such as specificity and durability. This technique forms polymers with desired selectivity towards a template, being a result of the interactions between the functional groups of the template and monomer(s) prior to the polymerization process. The orientation of molecules is fixed through chemical cross-linking during the polymerization, and then the removal of the template is undertaken to obtain a cavity in the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP). Covalent or non-covalent imprinting strategies employ either chemical bonds or various weak interactions in the formation of template–monomer prepolymerization moieties. Despite the advantages of MIPs, various challenges, such as issues with specificity, selectivity, heterogeneity, scale-up production, and template removal, can still occur.
I am pleased to announce the upcoming Special Issue of IJMS, focusing on the main challenges and future prospects in molecularly imprinted materials. This Special Issue will encompass research on the optimization and synthesis of different formats or types of these polymers, and a broadly understood analysis of their properties, including computational studies. Additionally, contributions on their application in various fields such as smart materials, sensors, membranes, and drug delivery systems, as well as in biomedical, toxicological, analytical, and other disciplines, are welcome.
Given the growing interest in this area within the scientific community, we encourage the submission of various types of manuscripts, including original articles, reviews, and short communications.
Dr. Monika Sobiech
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecularly imprinted polymer
- ion imprinting
- molecular recognition
- artificial receptor
- binding polymer
- biomimetic sensor
- computer simulation
- hybrid materials
- nanocomposites
- modeling and optimization
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