Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Based Design of Electrochemical Sensors and Drug-Delivery Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2026 | Viewed by 105
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Interests: electrochemistry; electrically conductive (conjugated) polymers; polymers modified with molecular imprints; electrochemical sensors
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Interests: electrochemistry; bioelectrochemistry; adsorption phenomena; liquid-solid interface studies; quartz crystal microbalances; biosensor and chemosensor development; ion chromatography; mass spectroscopy; analytical radiochemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The history of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) is spanning over 50 years.
MIPs are artificial receptors tailored to mimic biological receptors. They are often described as imitating antibodies or enzymes. MIPs are formed via chemical, electrochemical, or enzyme-induced polymerization processes in the presence of a template molecule, producing highly template-specific cavities in the polymer. MIPs re applied as specific electrochemical sensors, highly specific extraction sorbent, drug-delivery systems, etc.
Hence, this Special Issue aim and scope is to collect, present and disseminate the most recent advances related and dedicated to challenges in MIP mitigation and overcoming non-specific binding in MIPs for different kind of applications including electrochemical sensors, highly specific extraction sorbent, drug-delivery systems, etc.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Challenges in overcoming non-specific binding on molecularly imprinted polymers. This topic includes but is not limited to the measures taken to mitigate non-specific binding. We believe that the application of underlayer in the between electrode and polymer is one of the options.
- Challenges in MIP surface functionalization for improved specific binding.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Chemosensors.
Dr. Vilma Ratautaite
Dr. Deivis Plaušinaitis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molecularly imprinted polymers
- conducting polymers
- molecular imprinting technology
- electrochemical sensors
- impedimetric sensors
- non-specific binding
- artificial receptors
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