Conductive Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (cMIPs): Rising and Versatile Key Elements in Chemical Sensing

Abstract

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have proven useful as receptor materials in chemical sensing and have been reported for a wide range of applications. Based on their simplicity and stability compared to other receptor types, they bear huge application potential related to ongoing digitalization. This is the case especially for conductive molecularly imprinted polymers (cMIPs), which allow easy connection to commercially available sensing platforms; thus, they do not require complex measuring setups. This review provides an overview of the different synthetic approaches toward cMIPs and the obtained limit of detections (LODs) with different transducing systems. In addition, it presents and discusses their use in different application areas to provide a detailed overview of the challenges and possibilities related to cMIP-based sensing systems.

Keywords

• molecularly imprinted polymers
• conductive polymers
• sensors
• electropolymerization
• composites