Green Imprinted Materials provides a comprehensive overview of green aspects to MIPs. With a strong focus on food and environment, this book provides insights into the state-of-the-art and practice of green chemistry and its approaches to imprinting.

Methodologies for the preparation of these materials, as well as their potential in developing sustainable separation and sensing processes in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry are critically discussed throughout the book. Future perspectives of green imprinting technology is also evaluated.

This book is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in molecular imprinting science and technology and those interested in green chemistry and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

• Explores innovative strategies to materials science, molecular imprinting technology, polymer chemistry and green chemistry, as well as their applications for environmental, biological and food samples
• Presents a plethora of novel and advantageous materials which have gathered the most pronounced attention over recent years
• Provides state-of-the-art technologies and applications in MIP's and green chemistry

SECTION 1: Introduction 1. Green Engineering and Sustainable Chemistry Green Engineering 2. Molecular Imprinting Technology: Fundamentals, Design, Development and Applications of Molecularly Imprinted Materials Molecularly 3. Green chemistry and engineering of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) 4. Green polymerization techniques SECTION 2: Green MIPs in Sample Pre-treatment 5. Synthesis and characterization of green MIPs and their applications in wastewater treatment 6. Development of green magnetic MIPs for the removal of organophosphorus pesticides (OOPs) Green MIPs (i.e. magnetic MIPS) with super paramagnetism 7. Green MIPs as powerful sorbents for the removal of heavy metals and pharmaceuticals from environmental samples SECTION 3: Green MIPs in Separation/Identification Stage of Analysis 8. Green magnetic MIPs in food analysis 9. Green magnetic core-shell MIPs for environmental applications 10. Green MIPs for the extraction of mycotoxins in food samples SECTION 4: Green MIPs in Detection Stage of Analysis/Miniturization devices 11. Electrochemical sensors based on Green MIPs 12. Optical-based (bio)sensing based on green MIPs Optical-based (bio)sensing 13. Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors based on green MIPs MIPs as artificial antibodies 14. Green MIPs for the detection of food allergens SECTION 5: CONCLUSIONS 15. Conclusions and future perspectives