{"title":"Molecularly imprinted polymers meet sensors: Insights and prospects for pollutants analysis","authors":"Dandan Han , Niao Zhao , Yahan Cui , Hongyuan Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.trac.2024.118032","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sensors offer several outstanding properties, including ease of operation, rapid response times, portability, and the ability to perform real-time analysis, driving their rapid development and broad applications. Among these, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)-based sensors stand out due to their unique capability to modify sensor surfaces by creating recognition cavities in the polymer matrix. This approach offers a versatile methodology for imprinting various pollutants, providing a fast, sensitive, user-friendly, and highly selective sensing platform. MIPs-based sensors are especially attractive due to their excellent physicochemical stability, low cost, and reusability. Currently, a variety of sensors integrated with MIPs—such as fluorescent sensors and electrochemical sensors-have been developed for the detection and identification of trace biological macromolecules, organic pollutants, and heavy metal ions. This review explores the different types of MIPs-based sensors, their latest applications in pollutant detection, and highlights the challenges, limitations, and future directions for the development of these advanced sensing technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":439,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Analytical Chemistry","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 118032"},"PeriodicalIF":11.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trends in Analytical Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"1","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165993624005156","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Sensors offer several outstanding properties, including ease of operation, rapid response times, portability, and the ability to perform real-time analysis, driving their rapid development and broad applications. Among these, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)-based sensors stand out due to their unique capability to modify sensor surfaces by creating recognition cavities in the polymer matrix. This approach offers a versatile methodology for imprinting various pollutants, providing a fast, sensitive, user-friendly, and highly selective sensing platform. MIPs-based sensors are especially attractive due to their excellent physicochemical stability, low cost, and reusability. Currently, a variety of sensors integrated with MIPs—such as fluorescent sensors and electrochemical sensors-have been developed for the detection and identification of trace biological macromolecules, organic pollutants, and heavy metal ions. This review explores the different types of MIPs-based sensors, their latest applications in pollutant detection, and highlights the challenges, limitations, and future directions for the development of these advanced sensing technologies.
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TrAC publishes succinct and critical overviews of recent advancements in analytical chemistry, designed to assist analytical chemists and other users of analytical techniques. These reviews offer excellent, up-to-date, and timely coverage of various topics within analytical chemistry. Encompassing areas such as analytical instrumentation, biomedical analysis, biomolecular analysis, biosensors, chemical analysis, chemometrics, clinical chemistry, drug discovery, environmental analysis and monitoring, food analysis, forensic science, laboratory automation, materials science, metabolomics, pesticide-residue analysis, pharmaceutical analysis, proteomics, surface science, and water analysis and monitoring, these critical reviews provide comprehensive insights for practitioners in the field.