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Recent Advances in Electrochemical Sensors Based on Molecularly Imprinted Polymers and Nanomaterials
Author(s) -
Lahcen Abdellatif Ait,
Amine Aziz
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
electroanalysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1521-4109
pISSN - 1040-0397
DOI - 10.1002/elan.201800623
Subject(s) - nanomaterials , nanotechnology , molecularly imprinted polymer , materials science , graphene , nanoparticle , electrochemistry , carbon nanotube , conductive polymer , colloidal gold , analyte , polymer , electrode , chemistry , catalysis , selectivity , chromatography , organic chemistry , composite material
This review focuses on the recent achievement during period of 2013–2018 related to the electrochemical sensors based on molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) combined with nanomaterials for various kinds of applications. MIPs based electrochemical sensors have found a great interest due to their high stability, short time required for electropolymerization, and high specificity towards the target analyte. The sensitivity is considered as one of the important parameter in electrochemical sensing strategies that should be improved by the combination of highly conductive nanomaterials with selective MIPs. In general, the most employed nanomaterials are magnetic nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), carbon nanotubes and graphene. This review discusses the main current achievement as well as the current challenges regarding the development of biomimetic sensors in electroanalysis.