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Chemical Communications

Molecular imprinting for removing highly toxic organic pollutants

Xiantao Shen,a   Lihua Zhu,*b   Nan Wang,b   Lei Yec  and  Heqing Tang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China
E-mail: lhzhu63@yahoo.com.cn, hqtang62@yahoo.com.cn
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b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China

c Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden

Abstract

Molecular imprinting technology allows synthesis of polymers with specific recognition ability towards target pollutants, which show potential to selectively remove Highly Toxic Organic Pollutants (HTOPs) in the presence of common organic matrices that are thousands of times more abundant than the targets. This feature article summarizes the current development of molecular imprinting for removing HTOPs from polluted water, with a special emphasis on the application of molecularly imprinted polymers to improve the efficiency of photocatalytic and biological degradation of HTOPs in wastewater.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC14654A
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
29 Jul 2011
Accepted
28 Sep 2011
First published
05 Dec 2011

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 788-798

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