A molecular imprinted polymer (MIP) was computationally designed and synthesized for the selective extraction of metaproterenol (MTP), from human plasma. In this regards semi empirical MP3 and mechanical quantum (DFT) calculations were used to find a suitable functional monomers. On the basis of computational and experimental results, acrylic acid (AA) and DMSO:MeOH (90:10 %V/V) were found to b...

Advancement in molecularly imprinted biomimetics has aided developing robust artificial recognition-based materials, which can be customized for bio/chemo-sensing of distinct molecules. The present study reports a simple one-step synthesis and analysis protein-imprinted polymer thin films as recognition element directly onto solid support. Dopamine been explored versatile functional monomer (MI...

Molecular imprinting is a technique for the synthesis of polymers capable to bind target molecules selectively. The imprinting of large proteins, such as cell adhesion proteins or cell receptors, opens the way to important and innovative biomedical applications. However, such molecules can incur into important conformational changes during the preparation of the imprinted polymer impairing the ...

in this work, the template, monomer and cross-linker with the ratio of 1:8:40 were used to synthesize molecularly imprinted polymers (mips) for extraction of the bioactive chemical compounds from some traditional herbs as a sorbent material. quercetin, methacrylic acid (maa), trimethylolpropanetrimethacrylate (trim) and tetrahydrofuran (thf) were used as a template, functional monomer, cross-li...

The present study analyzed the risk of skin cancer due to ultraviolet erythemal irradiance (UVery) in Arica, Chile, using measurements of the solar ultraviolet index (UVI) between 2006 and 2011. The daily maximum value by biometer Yankee Environmental Systems (YES) solar ultraviolet B (UVB)-1 was measured between 2007 and 2012, and seasonal variations were clearly observed, with higher UVI leve...

A dopamine-imprinted polymer (MIP) was prepared in aqueous methanol solution at 60(o)C by free-radical cross-linking polymerization of methacrylic acid in the presence of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as the cross-linker and dopamine hydrochloride as the template molecule. Its ability to isolate dopamine was evaluated as the basis of a solid phase extraction procedure and compared with that of...

Molecular imprinting is a technique for preparing polymer scaffolds that function as synthetic receptors. Imprinted polymers that can selectively bind organic compounds have proven useful in sensor development. Although creating synthetic molecular-imprinting polymers that recognize proteins remains challenging, nanodevices and nanomaterials show promise in this area. Here, we show that arrays ...

The relationship between molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) morphology and template-rebinding over a series of warfarin-imprinted methacrylic acid co(ethylene dimethacrylate) polymers has been explored. Detailed investigations of the nature of template recognition revealed that an optimal template binding was obtained with polymers possessing a narrow population of pores (~3-4 nm) in the meso...