Imprinting with sensor development - On the way to synthetic antibodies

Molecular imprinting is an attractive tool for the development of artificia l recognition systems. Even non-covalent imprinting provides universal inte raction centers for sensoric applications. The coated chemical sensors have high stabilities under harsh conditions in both the gas and liquid phases. With adequate efforts optical and mass-sensitive sensors (quartz crystal m icrobalance, QCM, surface acoustic wave detector, SAW) are suitable for ana lysis down to the ppb (nL/L) range. PAHs, isomer VOCs as well as complex oi l mixtures are appropriate analytes.