Open AccessMolecular imprinted polymer and its applications in Agriculture Science: a review
Author(s) -
Ramashankar Prajapati,
Mohd Ayub Ansari
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anusandhan vigyan shodh patrika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-0123
pISSN - 2322-0708
DOI - 10.22445/avsp.v4i1.4379
Subject(s) - molecularly imprinted polymer , molecular imprinting , agriculture , human health , environmental science , contamination , nanotechnology , analyte , biochemical engineering , extraction (chemistry) , environmental chemistry , chemistry , computer science , materials science , engineering , chromatography , organic chemistry , selectivity , medicine , ecology , environmental health , biology , catalysis
Contamination of environment due to indiscriminate use of herbicides poses severe risks to soil, water and air as well as human health. Therefore, need of easy, rapid and of low cost detection methods triggered the researcher to find out new technology. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), the synthetic materials are very useful in these circumstances. It offers several advantages to the environmental scientist, chemist, pharmaceutical, and agro food industry for analysis, sensoring, extraction, or preconcentration of analytes. The high toxicity of herbicides and their large use in modern agriculture practices has increased public concerns. In this review paper, imprinting and detection of herbicide, the recognition and transport properties of molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) membranes prepared for herbicides such as Isoproturon and 2,4-D in particular have been discussed.