Preparation of molecularly imprinted polymer microspheres via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer precipitation polymerization
writer：Guoqing Pan, Baiyi Zu, Xianzhi Guo, Ying Zhang, Huiqi Zhang*
keywords：Molecularly imprinted polymers, microspheres, RAFT precipitation polymerization
source：期刊
specific source：Polymer 2009, 50(13), 2819-2825.
Issue time：2009年
The first combined use of reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization and precipitation polymerization in the molecular imprinting field is described. The new polymerization technique, namely RAFT precipitation polymerization (RAFTPP), provides MIP microspheres with obvious molecular imprinting effects towards the template, fast template binding process and an appreciable selectivity over structurally related compounds, while only irregular MIP aggregates were obtained via traditional radical precipitation polymerization (TRPP) under similar reaction conditions. The MIP microspheres prepared via RAFTPP have proven to show improved binding capacity, larger binding constant and apparent maximum number for high-affinity sites, and significantly higher high-affinity binding site density in comparison with the MIP prepared via TRPP.