Preparation and characterization of molecularly imprinted polymers for the selective separation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid

As a method of preparing ligand-selective cavities in a synthetic polymer matrix, molecular imprinting technique has been attracting significant interest from a large number of areas in chemistry and analytical sciences. In this study, molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were prepared with styrene, 4-vinylpyridine (4-VPy), and divinylbenzene (DVB) for the separation of hazardous 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), and the selectivity of MIPs as adsorbed 2,4-D and structurally similar materials was evaluated. The template was removed through the swelling process of toluene/ethanol, and the removal ratio was about 95–99%, respectively. MIPs synthesized in this study had good adsorption selectivity in the presence of other materials, although there was a difference of adsorption quantities (uptake) in the functional monomer (4-VPy contents) and the cross-linker (DVB contents). The results exhibit that the selectivity of MIPs was improved significantly by controlling the cross-linker. We expect that molecular imprinting technique will serve as a novel method for selective separation of specific materials in various fields, especially in the fields of environment and pharmaceutics.     

Development of sulfamethoxazole-imprinted polymers for the selective extraction from waters

Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) is an antibiotic of growing environmental concern. As specific filter material for the extraction of SMX from waters, a series of SMX-imprinted polymers have been synthesised varying their composition parameters, and their efficiency to selectively remove the contaminant SMX from complex polluted water was tested. Most of the developed materials exhibited an excellent uptake of the target pollutant SMX of more than 80% or even 90% and effective separation from selected easily degradable accompanying substances even in complex wastewater mixtures. All the results for SMX uptake and release were compared to the commonly used adsorbent activated carbon (AC).     

核-壳型罗丹明6G磁性分子印迹固相萃取材料的合成与表征

采用化学共沉淀法制备Fe3O4磁性纳米粒子,以3-氨丙基三乙氧基硅烷(APTES)对其表面进行氨基硅烷化改性,形成Fe3O4@SiO2-NH2纳米粒子。以其作为磁性核,采用表面印迹技术,以罗丹明6G为模板,丙烯酰胺(AM)为功能单体,三羟甲基丙烷三甲基丙烯酸酯(TRIM)为交联剂,在Fe3O4@SiO2-NH2表面形成罗丹明6G分子印迹聚合膜,制备了核-壳型罗丹明6G磁性分子印迹聚合物(Fe3O4@MIPs),对合成条件进行了优化。分别采用红外光谱(FT-IR)、场发射扫描电镜(FESEM)、振动样品磁强分析(VSM)和热重分析(TGA)等仪器分析手段,对Fe3O4@MIPs的结构进行表征。结果表明,所制备的核-壳型磁性分子印迹聚合物具有高吸附容量及显著选择性;在外加磁场作用下Fe3O4@MIPs可快速与样品基质分离,大大提高了实验效率。Fe3O4@MIPs作为一种新型固相萃取材料,可以从样品中选择性分离和富集违规添加的罗丹明6G,可应用于食品的安全检测。     

生物医用磁性纳米颗粒的制备与表面改性

磁性纳米颗粒目前是生物医用纳米材料领域异常活跃的方向之一.不同方法制备的磁性纳米颗粒经不同聚合物或分子表面改性后具有多方面的生物医学应用.本文综合评述了磁性纳米颗粒的制备方法,如共沉淀法、溶胶-凝胶法、微乳剂法等;总结了磁性纳米颗粒表面改性技术,包括改性物质与改性方法;概括了磁性纳米颗粒在生物医学领域的应用,主要涉及磁靶向制剂、细胞分离、肿瘤细胞的过热治疗、MR I衬度增强剂四方面.磁性纳米颗粒还有很大的发展空间和广阔的应用前景.     

Preparation of molecularly imprinted polymers for the detection of aromatic hydrocarbons

In this study, the molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are designed to improve their sensitivity and selectivity for specific aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene, and xylene isomers. The MIPs based on methyl acrylate (MA) monomer are prepared using toluene and ethylene glycol dimetacrylate (EGDMA) as a template and a cross linking agent, respectively. The binding sites on the MIPs are characterized by using Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FT-IR), nitrogen adsorption isotherms, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The selective behaviors of the MIPs are evaluated by their adsorption properties on a gravimetric apparatus. It is found that the performance is strongly influenced by the composition ratios of cross-linker, functional monomer, and template molecule. The molecular recognition ability can be assessed on the basis of an imprinting effect. The results indicate that the prepared MIPs can be used for the aromatic hydrocarbon sensor materials with high sensitivity and selectivity.     

Synthesis of surface imprinted polymers based on wrinkled flower-like magnetic graphene microspheres with favorable recognition ability for BSA

Nowadays,the employing of molecular imprinting technique in the analysis and separation of proteins from complex biological samples has been widely favored by researchers.To enrich the types of surface protein imprinted materials and expand the application fields of graphene materials,novel surface molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) based on magnetic graphene microspheres Fe304@rGO@MIPs are first synthesized in this paper.Fe304@rGO@MIPs are prepared by oxidative self-polymerization of dopamine on the surface of magnetic graphene (Fe304@rGO) composite microspheres.Bovine serum albumin (BSA) is selected as protein template.Fe3O4@rGO microspheres with wrinkled flower-like structure are obtained by compounding Fe3O4 and graphene oxide in an appropriate ratio via the method of high-temperature reduction self-assembly.The microspheres exhibit promising dispersibility,high external surface area,rich pore structure,and sufficient magnetic properties.These advantages not only prevent the agglomeration of imprinted microspheres in the aqueous phase,which is conducive to contact and static adsorption,but also increase the amount of protein imprinting.Additionally,sufficient magnetic properties ensure fast and effective separation of the adsorbents.While the adsorption capacity is increased,the separation procedure becomes simple.The binding capacity of Fe304@rGO@MIPs for BSA can reach 317.58 mg/g within 60 min,and the imprinting factor (IF) is 4.24.More importantly,Fe3O4@rGO@MIPs can specifically recognize the target BSA from the mixed proteins and the actual sample.There is no significant decrease in the adsorption amount,IF,and magnetic properties after eight runs.It is promising to be used in the separation of proteins from the actual biological samples.     

Nanosphere molecularly imprinted polymers doped with gold nanoparticles for high selectivity molecular sensors

We report the first attempt of using molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) in the shape of nanoparticles that were doped with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based sensing of molecular species.Specifically,AuNPs doped molecularly imprinted nano-spheres (AuNPs@nanoMIPs) were synthesized by one-pot precipitation polymerization using Sudan Ⅳ as the template for the SERS sensing.The AuNPs@nanoMIPs were characterized by various modes of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) that showed the exact location of the AuNPs inside the MIP particles.The effects of Au concentration and solution stirring on the shape and the polydispersity of the particles were studied.Significant enhancement of the Raman signals was observed only when the MIP particles were doped with the AuNPs.The SERS signal improved significantly with increase in the Au concentration inside the AuNPs@nanoMIPs.Selectivity measurements of the Sudan Ⅳ imprinted AuNPs@nanoMIPs carried out with different Sudan derivatives showed high selectivity of the AuNPs-doped MIP particles.     

Construction of uniformly sized pseudo template imprinted polymers coupled with HPLC-UV for the selective extraction and determination of trace estrogens in chicken tissue samples

To assess the potential risks associated with the environmental exposure of steroid estrogens, a novel highly efficient and selective estrogen enrichment procedure based on the use of molecularly imprinted polymer has been developed and evaluated. Herein, analogue of estrogens, namely 17-ethyl estradiol (EE(2)) was used as the pseudo template, to avoid the leakage of a trace amount of the target analytes. The resulting pseudo molecularly imprinted polymers (PMIPs) showed large sorption capacity, high recognition ability and fast binding kinetics for estrogens. Moreover, using these imprinted particles as dispersive solid-phase extraction (DSPE) materials, the amounts of three estrogens (E(1), E(2) and E(3)) which were detected by HPLC-UV from the chicken tissue samples were 0.28, 0.31 and 0.17 μg g(-1), and the recoveries were 72.5-78.7%, 90.3-95.2% and 80.5-83.6% in spiked chicken tissue samples with RSD <7%, respectively. All these results reveal that EE(2)-PMIPs as DSPE materials coupled with HPLC-UV could be applied to the highly selective separation and sensitive determination of trace estrogens in chicken tissue samples.