Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: Towards More Selective Electrochemical Detection
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2777
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the past decades, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have been shown to be an excellent class of modifiers for the design of electrochemical sensors. The Polymers offer the advantage of being easy to design, low cost and have possibility to be designed for different classes of micro and macro molecules. The polymers can be prepared through different approaches that can be chemical or electrochemical depending on the nature of the target template and its physicochemical properties. That is why they were successfully applied for the detection of many classes of analytes including pathogens, heavy metals, wastewater contaminants and pharmaceutical compounds. The current issue aims at shedding light on more recent applications of different classes of electrochemical sensors involving MIPs.
Prof. Dr. Rasha Mohamed El Nashar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecularly imprinted polymers
- modified sensors
- pharmaceutical compounds
- pathogens
- heavy metals
- pesticides
- organic contaminants
- point of care
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