Polymers and Polymer Composites

MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER: USING THE TEMPLATE-MONOMER STRATEGY TOWARDS A HIGHLY SELECTIVE SORBENT

January 1, 2008 By: Mingxia Zheng; Songjun Li; Jianming Zhang Research article

Title: MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER: USING THE TEMPLATE-MONOMER STRATEGY TOWARDS A HIGHLY SELECTIVE SORBENT
Page Range: p.47-54
Author(s): Mingxia Zheng; Songjun Li; Jianming Zhang
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Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites
Issue Year: ppc
Volume: 16
Issue No: No.1

Abstract
The design of a molecularly imprinted polymer highly recognisable to Bisphenol A is described and the ability of polymer to discriminate Bisphenol A from its analogue, dihydroxybenzophenone, demonstrated by adsorption tests. The imprinted polymer is synthesised using Bisphenol A dimethacrylate as the polymerisable monomer and the binding framework is generated by releasing the Bisphenol A from the precursor. It is shown that adsorption by this polymer fits the Freundlich and Temkin models well but not the Langmuir model. 22 refs.


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