title: Signaling molecularly imprinted polymers: molecular recognition-based sensing materials.
abstract: Molecular imprinting is a template polymerization technique that can easily provide synthetic polymers capable of molecular recognition for given target molecules. In addition to their highly specific recognition ability, we are attempting to introduce signaling functions to molecularly imprinted polymers, enabling them to respond according to specific binding events. Some of our work regarding such signaling molecularly imprinted polymers is presented here, including molecularly imprinted polymers that induce spectral shifts of target compounds because of binding. Such compounds include hydrogen-bonding-based fluorescent imprinted polymers and metalloporphyrin-based signaling molecularly imprinted polymers.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Kobe 657-8501, Japan. takeuchi@scitec.kobe-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Toshifumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mukawa
authors.forename: Hideyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shinmori
mesh_terms: D000179:Acrylates / Q000737:chemistry; D015374:Biosensing Techniques; D002930:Cinchona Alkaloids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008665:Metalloporphyrins / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C411824:2-(trifluoromethyl)acrylic acid; D000179:Acrylates; D002930:Cinchona Alkaloids; D008665:Metalloporphyrins; D011108:Polymers; C041622:cinchonidine