Abstract
The increasing concentration of environmental pollutants is an alarming issue all over the world. These pollutants not only affecting environmental conditions but also show harmful effects on human as well as animal health and therefore monitoring and analysis of the environmental pollutants are essential, for maintaining the quality of the environment and living beings. Fast, errorless, and inexpensive identification and quantification can functionally control the risks raised from environmental contaminants. Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals are some of the major pollutants found in the environment. There are many existing techniques based on chromatographic and spectrometric detection, however, molecular imprinting technology surpasses them and has emerged as an important sensing technique and is nowadays used widely for sensing applications. Molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) combined with other detection techniques are used for selective detection of various pollutants in different sources. The MIPs possess numerous advantages over the classical natural biorecognition element/bioreceptor-based techniques as they are more physically and chemically stable, cheaper, highly selective, and sensitive. MIPs are often modified with nanomaterial for enhancing their performance, various nanomaterial modified MIPs have been reported for sensing application. The presented chapter will provide an insight into molecular imprinted polymers-based nanosensors and their application for the detection of various environmental pollutants.
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The authors express their sincere thanks to Dr. Avanish Kumar Srivastava, Director, CSIR-AMPRI for his support and encouragement in this work. Pushpesh Ranjan is thankful to CSIR, India for SRF. Mohd. Abubakar Sadique is thankful to DST-SERB for JRF. Neeraj Kumar is thankful to the UGC, India for the award of SRF. Raju Khan would like to acknowledge SERB for providing funds in the form of the IPA/2020/000130 project.
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Singhal, A. et al. (2022). Molecularly Imprinted Polymers-Based Nanobiosensors for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis. In: Singh, R.P., Ukhurebor, K.E., Singh, J., Adetunji, C.O., Singh, K.R. (eds) Nanobiosensors for Environmental Monitoring. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16106-3_14
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