General design of chemosensors based on fluorescent hybrid molecularly imprinted conjugated polymers

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Rajib Mondal, rmonda1@lsu.edu and Evgueni E. Nesterov, een@lsu.edu. Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Molecularly imprinted conjugated polymers (MICPs), if properly designed, can be superior to traditional conjugated polymer based materials for using as sensors for the rapid and selective optical detection of analyte molecules based on their size and shape. To improve the detection selectivity of these materials, we proposed a general concept of hybrid molecularly imprinted conjugated polymers (HCMIPs), that combine conjugated polymer as a signal transduction element with N,O-bismethacryloyl ethanolamine (NOBE) as a single cross-linking monomer. These hybrid materials are advantageous for chemosensing applications as they allow increasing sensitivity and selectivity of analyte detection. In this poster, the synthesis of HCMIPs and studies on their properties will be presented.