Green Strategies for Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Development

摘要: Molecular imprinting is a powerful technology to create artificial receptors within polymeric matrices. Although it was reported for the first time by Polyakov, eighty-four years ago, remains, nowadays, very challenging research area. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have been successfully used in several applications where selective binding requirement, such as immunoassays, affinity separation, sensors, and catalysis. Conventional methods on MIP production still use large amounts of organic solvents which, allied with stricter legislation release chemicals environment presence impurities final materials, will boost, our opinion, new cleaner synthetic strategies, particular, application principles green chemistry engineering. Supercritical carbon dioxide, microwave, ionic liquids, ultrasound are some strategies which already applied production. These can improve properties, controlled morphology, homogeneity sites, absence solvents. This review intends give examples literature approaches development, from nano- micron-scale applications.