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Nanomoulding of Functional Materials, a Versatile Complementary Pattern Replication Method to Nanoimprinting
Published on: January 23, 2013
Molecular imprinting
1Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, University of Lund, Sweden.
Abstract:
Molecular imprinting is an emerging methodology for the creation of selective recognition sites in synthetic polymers. This technique entails the polymerization of functional monomers in the presence of an important molecule (template). Recent studies have shown that the polymers obtained exhibit a surprisingly high degree of stereo- and regiospecific selectivity, making the commercial use of such tailor-made separation materials in several areas, such as the chiral separation of bioactive molecules and as antibody mimics, a realistic possibility.
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