Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs): Commercialization Prospects

Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs): Commercialization Prospects guides the reader through the various steps in the conceptualization, design, preparation, and innovative applications of molecularly imprinted polymers, and demystifies the challenges relating to commercialization. The book begins by introducing molecularly imprinted polymers, design, modelling, compositions, and material selection. This is followed by in-depth chapters describing novel methods and discussing the challenges relating to the use of molecularly imprinted polymers in specific application areas. The final chapters of the book explore the current situation in terms of patents and commercialized materials based on MIPs, as well as prospects and possible opportunities. This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in the development, application, and commercialization of molecularly imprinted polymers, including researchers and advanced students in polymer science, polymer chemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, chemical engineering, and biomedicine, as well as engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in MIPs for advanced applications. Covers all stages of molecular imprinting, from conceptualization, modelling, and solvent choice, to extraction, monomer composition, and miniaturization Offers a unique focus on commercialization, examining the current situation and addressing barriers to further commercialization Includes the state-of-the-art, such novel approaches for the utilization of biopolymers and their nanoparticles as imprinting matrixes, and numerical calculations in the design of MIPs INDICE: 1. An introduction to molecularly imprinted polymers2. Inefficient removal of template as a limitation of molecular imprinting of polymers3. Computer aided modelling and theoretical calculations for rational design of MIPs4. Role of monomer compositions in molecular imprinting5. Material selection for fabrication of MIP based devices: An overview6. Signal generation in MIP sensors: a critical analysis7. Adaptability of MIPs for cutting-edge technology to devise cheap sensing tools8. Molecularly imprinted polymer in electrochemical sensing - a step closer to achieving technology readiness9. Molecularly imprinted polymers in optical sensing - an outlook for future10. Stimuli-responsive imprinted polymers: Synthesis, application, and commercialization prospects11. Biopolymers and their nanoparticles as imprinting matrix - introspection and commercialization prospects12. Challenges in protein imprinting via epitope approach13. Molecularly imprinted polymers: applications and challenges in biological and environmental sample analysis14. Challenges in molecularly imprinted polymers in competition with biosensors at commercial scale15. Patents based on molecularly imprinted polymers: exploring their commercial potential16. Commercialized materials based on MIP17. Commercialization prospects for MIP: A summary

• ISBN: 978-0-323-91925-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 450
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés