Molecularly Imprinted Sensors: Overview and Applications

Molecular imprinting is capable of straightforwardly creating binding sites for desired templates that are comparable to natural antibodies. This hands-on guide is an important source for the most recent advances and challenges related to molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) sensors, ranging from fundamentals to applications. It covers basic principles and provides a systematic description of a variety of MIP-based sensors.

Key features:

• Includes state-of-the-art methodology supported by comparisons and discussions from leading experts in the field of sensors and molecular recognition.

• Addresses all types of sensing modes (including optical, electrochemical, thermal, acoustic, and more), materials, and analytic platforms.

• Covers various applications, from environmental monitoring and protection to pharmaceutical separation and analysis, and from defense and security to medicine and health care.

Professor Songjun Li is Head of the Department of Polymer Materials at Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. He is President of the Chinese Advanced Materials Society, Executive President of the International Union of Advanced Materials, and Founder and Permanent Chairman of the International Congress on Advanced Materials. Li serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Open Electrochemistry Journal, and Journal of the Chinese Advanced Materials Society (JCAMS). From 2009 to 214 he was Marie Curie Fellow and Visiting Professor of Cranfield University, UK.

Professor Sergey A. Piletsky is Head of the Leicester Biotechnology Group, University of Leicester, UK and former Director of the Biotechnology Center at Cranfield University, UK. He is Co- Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Chinese Advanced Materials Society (JCAMS) and Secretary-General of the International Union of Advanced Materials. He served as Chairman of the 2nd International Congress on Advanced Materials.